Sch. 2
General and supplementary
7. It shall not be the duty of a Boundary Commission to aim at giving full effect in all circumstances to the above rules, but they shall take account, so far as they reasonably can—
- (a) of the inconveniences attendant on alterations of constituencies other than alterations made for the purposes of rule 4, and
- (b) of any local ties which would be broken by such alterations.
8. In the application of rule 5 to each part of the United Kingdom for which there is a Boundary Commission—
- (a) the expression “electoral quota” means a number obtained by dividing the electorate for that part of the United Kingdom by the number of constituencies in it existing on the enumeration date,
- (b) the expression “electorate” means—
- (i) in relation to a constituency, the number of persons whose names appear on the register of parliamentary electors in force on the enumeration date under the Representation of the People Acts for the constituency,
- (ii) in relation to the part of the United Kingdom, the aggregate electorate as defined in sub-paragraph (i) above of all the constituencies in that part,
- (c) the expression “enumeration date” means, in relation to any report of a Boundary Commission under this Act, the date on which the notice with respect to that report is published in accordance with section 5(1) of this Act.
9. In this Schedule, a reference to a rule followed by a number is a reference to the rule set out in the correspondingly numbered paragraph of this Schedule.
Section 7.SCHEDULE 3
Consequential Amendments
The Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973
1.—(1) Section 28 of the 1973 c. 36.Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 shall be amended as follows.
(2) In subsection (2) for the words “section 2(1) or (3) of the House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1949” there shall be substituted the words “section 3(1) or (3) of the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986”.
(3) In subsection (3) for the words “Act of 1949” there shall be substituted the words “Act of 1986”.
(4) In subsection (4) for the words from the beginning to “in report)” there shall be substituted the words “Sections 3(4) and (5),