division_name: Cities and Local Government Devolution Bill [HL] &#8212; <i>Report (2nd Day)</i>
motion: <p class="italic" pid="a.644.0/1" pwmotiontext="unrecognized">Amendment 75</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="a.644.0/2" pwmotiontext="unrecognized"> Moved by Lord Shipley</p>
  
  <p pid="a.644.0/3" pwmotiontext="unrecognized"><b>75:</b> After Clause 10, insert the following new Clause&#8212;</p>
  
  <p pid="a.644.0/4" pwmotiontext="unrecognized">&#8220;Governance arrangements of local authorities in England: election of councillors</p>
  
  <p pid="a.644.0/5" pwmotiontext="lines">(1) Section 36 of the Representation of the People Act 1983 (local elections in England and Wales) is amended as follows.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.644.0/6" pwmotiontext="lines">(2) After subsection (1) insert&#8212;</p>
  
  <p pid="a.644.0/7" pwmotiontext="unrecognized">&#8220;(1A) Rules made by the Secretary of State under subsection (1) must ensure that each vote in the poll at an election shall be a single transferable vote.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.644.0/8" pwmotiontext="lines">(1B) A single transferable vote is a vote&#8212;</p>
  
  <p pid="a.644.0/9" pwmotiontext="lines">(a) capable of being given so as to indicate the voter&#8217;s order of preference for the candidates for election as members for the constituency; and</p>
  
  <p pid="a.644.0/10" pwmotiontext="lines">(b) capable of being transferred to the next choice when the vote is not needed to give a prior choice the necessary quota of votes or when a prior choice is eliminated from the list of candidates because of a deficiency in the number of votes given for him.&#8221;&#8221;</p>