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Committee of the whole House Proceedings: 9 February 2010
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Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill,

      (2)
Subject to the following amendments, the Parliamentary Constituencies Act

1986 shall apply for the purpose of revising the constituency names,

boundaries and number of members to be elected contained in each

constituency provided for in (1).

      (3)
In section 1 of the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986, leave out the words

“, each returning a single member,”.

      (4)
In Schedule 2 of the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986:

(a)
in rule 1(1), delete “613” and insert “513”;

(b)
delete rule 1(3) and insert “The number of seats in Wales shall be not

less than 28.”;

(c)
delete rule 1(4) and insert “The number of seats in Northern Ireland

shall not be greater than 14 or less than 12, and shall be 13 unless it

appears to the Boundary Commission for Northern Ireland that

Northern Ireland should for the time being be divided into 12 or (as the

case may be) into 14 constituencies.”;

(d)
rules 2 and 3 are repealed;

(e)
in rule 4(1)(a), delete (i) and (ii), and insert “regard shall be had to the

boundaries of local authority areas, and, in Wales, to the boundaries of

the preserved counties as defined by section 64 of the Local

Government (Wales) Act 1964.”;

(f)
rule 4(1A) is repealed;

(g)
in rule 5 delete “The electorate of any constituency” and insert “The

electorate of any constituency divided by the number of members to

be elected in that constituency”;

(h)
insert after rule 5—

“(5A)
In setting the sizes of constituencies and the number of

members to be elected from each constituency, a Boundary

Commission shall normally provide for constituencies of

no fewer than three and no more than six members, but in

areas of exceptionally low population density or in

exceptionally isolated areas, the Commission shall

consider providing for constituencies with fewer than three

members, including single member constituencies. This

rule is subject to rule 3A.”’.

Daniel Kawczynski

Not called  NS4

To move the following Schedule:—



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