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| Clause 9, page 7, leave out lines 27 to 37 and insert— |
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| | 2 | The UK Electoral Quota shall be defined as the total electorate of the United |
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| | Kingdom on the designated enumeration day divided by 650.’. |
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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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| | ‘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 or areas concerned by the United |
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| | Kingdom Electoral Quota and rounding to the nearest whole number. Each |
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| | area must be allocated at least one whole constituency.’. |
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| Clause 9, page 8, leave out lines 4 to 6 and insert— |
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| | ‘(1A) | In England, each constituency shall be wholly in one of the electoral regions |
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| | specified in Schedule 1 to the European Parliamentary Elections Act 2002.’. |
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