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| | the National Assembly for Wales under the provisions of the |
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| | Government of Wales Act 2006 following a positive vote in a |
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| | (b) | No constituency shall have an electorate more than five per cent above |
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| | or below the electoral quota for that part of the United Kingdom unless |
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| | the Boundary Commission concerned believes there to be overriding |
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| | reasons under the terms of these rules why it should; |
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| | (c) | No constituency shall have an electorate more than 15 per cent above |
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| | or below the Electoral Quota for that part of the United Kingdom; |
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| | (d) | In England no district or borough ward shall be included in more than |
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| | (e) | In Northern Ireland no local authority ward shall be included in more |
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| | (f) | In Wales no unitary authority ward shall be included in more than one |
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| | (g) | In Scotland regard shall be had to local authority ward boundaries; |
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| | (h) | In England the Boundary Commission should where practicable have |
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| | regard to the boundaries of counties and London Boroughs and in any |
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| | case no constituency shall include the whole or part of more than two |
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| | counties or London Boroughs; |
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| | (i) | In Wales the Boundary Commission should where practicable have |
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| | regard to the boundaries of unitary authorities and in any case no |
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| | constituency shall include the whole or part of more than two unitary |
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| | (j) | A Boundary Commission may have regard to the size, shape and |
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| | accessibility of a constituency; |
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| | (k) | A Boundary Commission shall have regard to any local ties that may |
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| | be broken or respected by proposals that they may make and any |
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| | inconveniences attendant upon them.’. |
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| Clause 9, page 8, line 24, at end insert— |
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| | ‘(1A) | A Boundary Commission must ensure that constituencies are wholly within a |
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| | principal local authority area when the following support such a proposition: |
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| | (a) | The principal local authority: |
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| | (b) | All sitting Members of Parliament representing constituencies wholly or |
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| | partially within that area; |
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| | (c) | Two thirds of all civil parish and town councils or parish meetings within |
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| | that area who express an opinion; |
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| | | and where the Commission is satisfied from its own soundings amongst the |
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| | electorate and the business and voluntary sectors that this preference is widely |
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| Clause 9, page 8, leave out lines 25 to 30. |
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| Clause 9, page 8, line 30, at end insert ‘The Boundary Commission for England |
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| shall take into account counties as listed in Schedule 1 to the 1997 Lieutenancies Act in |
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| so far as is possible in accordance with rule 2 above.’. |
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| Clause 9, page 8, line 30, at end insert— |
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| | ‘(2A) | A Boundary Commission must take into account estimates made for each |
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| | proposed constituency area of unregistered but eligible voters.’. |
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| Clause 9, page 8, line 30, at end insert— |
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| | ‘(2A) | The Boundary Commission for England must, so far as reasonably practicable, |
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| | use parishes rather than wards or eletoral divisions as the basis for |
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| Clause 9, page 8, line 32, leave out subsection (6). |
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| Clause 9, page 8, leave out lines 32 to 39 and insert— |
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| | ‘Whole numbers of constituencies |
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| | 1C (1) | The following shall be allocated whole numbers of constituencies by |
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| | whichever Boundary Commission is responsible for them— |
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| | (a) | Orkney Islands and Shetland Islands council areas; |
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| | (b) | Comhairle nan Eilean Siar council area; |
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| | (c) | The Isle of Anglesey county area; |
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| | (d) | The Isle of Wight county area; |
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| | (e) | The County of Cornwall and Isles of Scilly council areas; |
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| | (2) | The number of constituencies to be allocated to each area shall be determined |
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| | by dividing the electorate of the area(s) concerned by the United Kingdom |
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| | Electoral Quota and rounding to the nearest whole number. Each area must be |
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| | allocated at least one whole constituency.’. |
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| Clause 9, page 8, line 38, at end insert— |
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| | ‘(c) | a constituency named Ynys Môn, comprising the area of the Cyngor Sir |
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| | Ynys Môn Isle of Anglesey County Council.’. |
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| Clause 9, page 8, line 39, at end insert— |
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| | 6A (3) | All parts of the Isle of Wight must be included in a constituency which is |
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| | wholly in the Isle of Wight. |
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| | (4) | Rule 2 does not apply to any such constituency.’. |
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| Clause 9, page 8, line 39, at end insert— |
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| | ‘Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly |
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| | 6A (5) | All parts of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly must be included in a constituency |
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| | which is wholly in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. |
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| | (6) | Rule 2 does not apply in relation to any such constituency. |
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| | (7) | The electorate of any constituency in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly shall be: |
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| | (a) | no less than 95% of the Cornwall and Scilly electoral quota; and |
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| | (b) | no more than 105% of that quota. |
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| | (8) | The “ Cornwall and Scilly electoral quota” means C/E where C is the electorate |
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| | of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly and E is the number of parliamentary |
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| | constituencies which the Commission has determined should be allocated to |
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| | Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.’. |
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| Clause 9, page 8, line 39, at end insert— |
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| | 6A (1) | There shall continue to be 40 constituencies in Wales. |
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| | (2) | Rule 2 does not apply in relation to Wales. |
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| | (3) | The electorate of any constituency in Wales shall be— |
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| | (a) | no less than 95 per cent. of the Wales electoral quota, |
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| | (b) | no more than 105% of that quota. |
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| | (4) | The “Wales electoral quota” means W/40 |
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| | (a) | where W is the electorate of Wales.’. |
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| | 6B (1) | All parts of Cornwall must be included in a constituency which is wholly in |
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| | (2) | Rule 2 does not apply to any such constituencies.’. |
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| Clause 9, page 9, leave out lines 1 to 40. |
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| Clause 9, page 9, leave out lines 1 to 25. |
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| Clause 9, page 9, leave out lines 26 to 40 and insert— |
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| | ‘Allocation of constituencies |
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| | 1D (1) | The Adjusted UK Electoral Quota shall be calculated as follows— |
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| | | The total electorate of the United Kingdom less the areas listed in Rule 1C(1), |
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| | divided by 650 minus the total number of constituencies allocated to the areas |
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| | (2) | Each country shall then be allocated a whole number of constituencies as |
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| | (3) | The first constituency shall be allocated to the part of the United Kingdom with |
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| | (4) | The second and subsequent constituencies shall be allocated in the same way, |
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| | except that the electorate of a part of the United Kingdom to which one of more |
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| | constituencies have already been allocated is to be divided by—
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| | | where C is the number of constituencies already allocated to that part. |
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| | (5) | An Electoral Quota shall then be calculated for each of the four parts by |
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| | dividing the electorate of each part by the number of seats allocated as |
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| | described in Rule 1D (3) and (4). |
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| | (6) | The total number of constituencies to be allocated to any part shall not be more |
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| | than 10 per cent. above or below the current number of constituencies. If the |
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| | number of constituencies allocated by the process described in Rule 1D(3) and |
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| | (4) exceeds that limit then additional or fewer seats shall be allocated as |
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| | appropriate suffucient to bring the allocation within 10 per cent of the current |
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| | number of seats in the part concerned. |
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| | (7) | This adjusted number of seats shall be the allocation for that part for the |
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| | purposes of Rule 1D(5).’. |
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| Clause 9, page 9, line 38, after ‘Scotland’, insert ‘and of Wales’. |
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| Clause 9, page 9, line 40, at end insert— |
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| | ‘(4A) | If the number of constituencies allocated to Wales under 8(3) is fewer than 35, an |
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| | additional allocation shall be made to Wales to ensure that it has 35 |
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| | (4B) | Where an additional allocation is made under sub-paragraph (4A) above, sub- |
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| | paragraph (4C) shall apply in place of rule 2. |
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| | (4C) | The electorate of any constituency in Wales shall be— |
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| | (a) | no less than 95 per cent. of the Wales electoral quota |
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| | (b) | no more than 105 per cent of that quota; |
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| | | the “Wales electoral quota” meaning W/P, where W is the electorate of Wales and |
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| | P is the number of constituencies allocated to Wales.’. |
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| Clause 9, page 9, line 40, at end insert— |
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| | ‘Variation in number of constituencies |
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| | 8A (8) | A Boundary Commission shall have power to recommend that the number of |
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| | constituencies in the relevant part of the United Kingdom should be greater or |
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| | smaller than the number determined in accordance with the allocation method |
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| | (9) | The number so recommended must be no less than 98 per cent. and no more |
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| | than 102 per cent. of the number so determined.’. |
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| Clause 9, page 10, line 2, leave out from ‘persons’ to end of line 6 and insert ‘who |
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| are estimated by the Office of National Statistics to be eligible to vote in United Kingdom |
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| parliamentary elections, whether or not they are so registered to vote.’. |
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| Clause 9, page 10, line 2, leave out from ‘persons’ to first ‘in’ in line 5 and insert |
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| ‘aged 18 or over who are shown by the most recent census of population to reside’. |
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| Clause 9, page 10, line 8, after ‘counties’, insert ‘as defined by the 1997 |
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| | ‘( ) | In relation to a report under section 3(1) of the 1986 Act that a Boundary |
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| | Commission is required, by subsection (2) of section 3 of that Act as substituted |
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| | by section 8(3) of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act, to |
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| | submit before 1 October 2013— |
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| | (a) | a Boundary Commission shall make information available via their |
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| | website, and if they see fit by other means, on their proposed general |
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| | approach to the application of Schedule 2 to the 1986 Act, |
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| | (b) | representations with respect to this proposed general approach may be |
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| | made to the Commission during a specified period of eight weeks, and |
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| | (c) | the Commission shall take into consideration any such representations |
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| | duly made prior to the provisional determination of any |
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| | recommendations affecting any constituency. |
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| | ( ) | A Boundary Commission’s “proposed general approach” shall include but need |
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| | (a) | the processes by which they intend to seek to ensure the application of |
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| | rule 2, and in the case of the Boundary Commission for Northern Ireland |
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| | of rule 7, including the circumstances in which they will consider |
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| | recommending that wards, electoral areas and divisions should be |
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| | divided between two or more constituencies, and the information on |
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| | which they intend to rely in determining how to carry out such a division, |
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| | (b) | the extent to which they intend to take into account each of the factors |
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| | described in rule 5(1), and in the case of the Boundary Commission for |
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| Clause 10, page 10, leave out from line 39 to line 5 on page 11, and insert— |
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| | ‘( ) | Where a Boundary Commission have provisionally determined to make |
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| | recommendations affecting any constituency— |
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| | (a) | they shall take such steps as they see fit to inform people in the |
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| | constituency of the effect of the proposed recommendations and that a |
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| | copy of the recommendations is open to inspection at a specified place |
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| | (b) | they shall make available via their website, and if they see fit by other |
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| | means, copies of their proposed recommendations and information on |
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| | their effect, together with such information as they have on the number |
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| | of the electorate in every sub-division of every ward, electoral division |
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| | and electoral area in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, and |
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| | (c) | representations with respect to the proposed recommendations may be |
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| | made to the Commission by people whether in or outside any given |
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| | constituency during a specified period of 12 weeks, and the Commission |
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| | shall take into consideration any such representations duly made.’. |
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| | ‘(1A) | A Boundary Commission may cause a local inquiry to be held for the purposes of |
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| | a report under this Act where, on publication of a recommendation of a Boudary |
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| | Commission for the alteration of any constituency, the Commission receive any |
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| | representation objecting to the proposed recommendation from an interested |
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| | authority or from a body of electors numbering one hundred or more. |
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| | (1B) | Where a local inquiry was held in respect of the constituencies before the |
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| | publication of the notice mentioned in subsection (1) above, that subsection shall |
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| | not apply if the Commission, after considering the matters discussed at the local |
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| | inquiry, the nature of the representations received on the publication of the notice |
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| | and any other relevant circumstances, are of opinion that a further inquiry would |
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| | (1C) | In subsection (1A) above, “interested authority” and “elector” respectively mean, |
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| | in relation to any recommendation, a local authority whose area is wholly or |
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| | partly comprised in the constituencies affected by the recommendation, and a |
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| | parliamentary elector for any of those constiuencies.’. |
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| Clause 11, page 11, line 30, leave out ‘Secretary of State’ and insert ‘Minister’. |
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