(1) Sections 141 and 142A apply to and in relation to an election in a region as if references in those sections to a district were references to a region.

(2) In the case of a conjoint election appointments of Assistant Returning Officers and counting places under section 141, and of Assistant Returning Officers under section 142A, for the purposes of an election for the Assembly have effect for the purposes of the corresponding election for the Council.

[Section 146B inserted by No. 40 of 1987 s. 73.]