Legislation – Scottish General Election (Coronavirus) Act 2021

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Introduction

1 Application of this Act to 2021 election

2 Disapplication of section 2 of the Scotland Act 1998

3 Closing date for application to vote by post or amend existing absent vote arrangements

4 Postal voting applications: report at closing date

5 Power to provide for all-postal vote

6 Dissolution of current Parliament

7 Dissolution of current Parliament: consequential modifications

8 Power to provide for polling on additional days

9 First meeting of new Parliament and choice of new First Minister

10 Election of new Presiding Officer

11 Power of Presiding Officer to postpone election

12 Effect of Act on existing power to make provision about elections

13 Interpretation

14 Ancillary provision

15 Commencement

16 Short title

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Arrangements for new Parliament

9First meeting of new Parliament and choice of new First Minister

(1)

The Presiding Officer must, after consultation with the Electoral Commission and the convener of the Electoral Management Board for Scotland, fix the day on which the Scottish Parliament is first to meet after the poll for the 2021 election.

(2)

The day fixed under subsection (1) must be as soon as reasonably practicable after the poll.

(3)

If the day fixed under subsection (1) is not within the period of seven days beginning immediately after the day of the poll, any relevant additional days are to be disregarded for the purpose of the calculation of the period allowed, under section 46 of the Scotland Act 1998, for the Parliament to nominate one of its members for appointment as First Minister after the poll for the 2021 election.

(4)

In subsection (3)—

“the day of the poll” means 6 May 2021 (or, where the Presiding Officer has exercised the power conferred by section 11(1), the day fixed by the Presiding Officer under that section for the holding of the poll for the 2021 election),

a “relevant additional day” means any day in the period—

(a)

beginning with the eighth day immediately after the day of the poll, and

(b)

ending with the day fixed under subsection (1).