Section 6 amends the Local Elections Regulations, 1995. These amendments arise primarily from section 14 of the Local Government Act 2001 which prohibits multiple membership of local authorities, apart from membership of a county council and town council. For example, simultaneous membership of two or more county councils, or a city council, and a number of county councils is prohibited. The effect of the amendment to the regulations is that if a person stands for and is elected to a number of different local authorities, he or she must choose one and a casual vacancy then occurs in the others. Where the person does not so choose, he or she is deemed to have been elected where he or she received the highest vote. These arrangements mirror those already in place for many years which deal with election of the same person to a number of local electoral areas within the same local authority. As mentioned, the primary effect of section 7 is to repeal the provisions of the 2001 Act relating to the direct election of county-city cathaoirligh.