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House of Commons

Notices of Amendments

given on

Wednesday 13 October 2010

For other Amendment(s) see the following page(s) of Supplement to Votes:

287-358 and 367-68

Committee of the whole House

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Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill

Mr Charles Kennedy

Mr Alan Reid

John Thurso

343

Clause  9,  page  7,  leave out lines 31 and 32 and insert—

‘(a)	no more than five per cent. above or below the electoral quota for that

part of the United Kingdom unless the Boundary Commission concerned

believes there to be overriding reasons under the terms of these rules why

it should, and

(b)	no more than 15 per cent. above or below the electoral quota for that part

of the United Kingdom.’.

Mr Charles Kennedy

Mr Alan Reid

John Thurso

344

Clause  9,  page  7,  leave out lines 31 and 32 and insert—

‘(a)	no more than five per cent. above or below the electoral quota for that

part of the United Kingdom unless the Boundary Commission concerned

believes there to be exceptional geographic circumstances, and

(b)	no more than 15 per cent. above or below the electoral quota for that part

of the United Kingdom.’.

Mr Charles Kennedy

Mr Alan Reid

John Thurso

345

Clause  9,  page  8,  line  10,  leave out from ‘if’ to end of line 14 and insert ‘the

Boundary Commission is concerned that unusual geographical considerations, including

in particular the size, shape and accessibility of a proposed constituency, would cause an

unreasonable amount of time to travel round the various communities within it.’.

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Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill, continued

Mr Charles Kennedy

Mr Alan Reid

John Thurso

346

Clause  9,  page  8,  line  16,  leave out ‘may’ and insert ‘must’.

Mr Charles Kennedy

Mr Alan Reid

John Thurso

347

Clause  9,  page  8,  line  16,  leave out from ‘account’ to end of line 17.

Mr Charles Kennedy

Mr Alan Reid

John Thurso

348

Clause  9,  page  7,  leave out lines 35 to 37 and insert—

‘

    where U is the electorate of the United Kingdom minus the electorate of the council areas

mentioned in rule 6 and C is the number of constituencies allocated to those council

areas.’.

Mr Charles Kennedy

Mr Alan Reid

John Thurso

349

Clause  9,  page  8,  leave out lines 32 to 39 and insert—

‘Whole numbers of constituencies

6    (1)

The following shall be allocated whole numbers of constituencies by

whichever Boundary Commission is responsible for them—

(a)	Orkney Islands and Shetland Islands council areas;

(b)	Comhairle nan Eilean Siar council area;

(c)	the Cyngor Sir Ynys Môn Isle of Anglesey county area;

(d)	the Isle of Wight county area;

(e)	the county of Cornwall and Isles of Scilly council areas;

(f)	the Highland council area;

(g)	the Argyll and Bute council area.

(2)	The number of constituencies to be allocated to each area shall be determined

by dividing the electorate of the area or areas concerned by the United

Kingdom electoral average and rounding to the nearest whole number, unless

this would mean that rule 4(1) could not be satisfied, in which case the area

concerned will be allocated the smallest number of constituencies required in

order to satisfy that rule. Each area must be allocated at least one whole

constituency.

(3)	In this rule the United Kingdom electoral average means—

where E is the electorate of the United Kingdom.’.

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Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill, continued

Mr Charles Kennedy

Mr Alan Reid

John Thurso

350

Clause  9,  page  9,  leave out lines 38 to 40 and insert ‘and accordingly the electorate of

each part of the United Kingdom shall be treated for the purposes of this rule as reduced

by the electorate of those constituencies.’.

Mark Field

351

Clause  9,  page  8,  line  39,  at end insert—

‘Special authorities

6A  (4)

The area of a special authority shall form part of not more than one

constituency at any time, and the name by which that constituency is known

shall refer to the area of that authority.

(5)	In this paragraph “special authority” has the same meaning as in section 144

of the Local Government Finance Act 1988.’.

Edward Miliband

Sadiq Khan

Chris Bryant

Mr Peter Hain

352

Schedule  2,  page  37,  line  26,  after ‘contrary’, insert ‘including any validly

registered voter who presents himself to the polling station before 10 pm but, because of

a q ueue, is not immediately able to vote’.

Edward Miliband

Sadiq Khan

Chris Bryant

Mr Peter Hain

353

Schedule  2,  page  49,  line  15,  at end insert—

‘(aa)

certify as respects the votes cast in each parliamentary constituency

within his area—

(i)	the number of ballot papers counted by him in that parliamentary

constituency; and

(ii)	the number of votes cast in favour and against to the question

asked in the referendum.’.

Edward Miliband

Sadiq Khan

Chris Bryant

Mr Peter Hain

354

Schedule  2,  page  27,  line  37,  at end insert—

‘(iii)

a school which enjoys charitable status.’.

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Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill, continued

Edward Miliband

Sadiq Khan

Chris Bryant

Mr Peter Hain

355

Schedule  2,  page  27,  line  38,  leave out from ‘Scotland’ to end of line 39 and insert

‘any school other than those which are run as profit-making enterprises’.

Edward Miliband

Sadiq Khan

Chris Bryant

Mr Peter Hain

356

Schedule  2,  page  27,  line  41,  after ‘Assembly’, insert ‘or a school which enjoys

charitable status’.

Mark Durkan

357

Clause  9,  page  8,  line  30,  at end insert—

‘(2A)

The Boundary Commission for Northern Ireland must take into account the effect

of the proposals in any of their reports on the equity of the electoral arrangements

for the Northern Ireland Assembly, and in particular must seek to ensure that the

disparity between the electorates of constituencies in Northern Ireland is not such

as to undermine the system of proportional representation as set out in the

Northern Ireland Act 1998.’.

Mark Durkan

358

Clause  9,  page  9,  line  13,  after ‘5(1)’, insert ‘or (2A)’.

Mark Durkan

359

Clause  10,  page  11,  line  6,  after ‘(2)’, insert ‘Subject to subsection (2A) below’.

Mark Durkan

360

Clause  10,  page  11,  line  7,  at end insert—

‘(2A)

The Boundary Commission for Northern Ireland shall cause a public inquiry to

be held for the purposes of a report under this Act covering the whole of Northern

Ireland, where any representation objecting to a report has been received from the

council of a district in Northern Ireland or from a body of parliamentary electors

in Northern Ireland numbering one hundred or more from two or more

constituencies.’.

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Revised 14 October 2010