The act consolidated previous electoral law, but also made some changes to administration.

The principal change was to provide for the conduct of future reviews of parliamentary boundaries by the permanent Parliamentary Boundary Commissions.

[citation needed] In addition the act made some changes to the franchise, removing the remaining provisions allowing plural voting in parliamentary elections by people who owned business premises.

(However, plural voting for local government elections continued until it was abolished, outside the City of London, by the Representation of the People Act 1969.

From this point forward, there was a single electoral register for both local government and Parliamentary elections and each voter was only allowed to vote once in any general election even if they happened to be registered in more than one address for local elections.