Notices. 5.—(1) Where a Boundary Commission intend to consider making a report under this Act they shall, by notice in writing, inform the Secretary of State accordingly, and a copy of the notice shall be published—
- (a) in a case where it was given by the Boundary Commission for England or the Boundary Commission for Wales, in the London Gazette,
- (b) in a case where it was given by the Boundary Commission for Scotland, in the Edinburgh Gazette, and
- (c) in a case where it was given by the Boundary Commission for Northern Ireland, in the Belfast Gazette.
(2) Where a Boundary Commission have provisionally determined to make recommendations affecting any constituency, they shall publish in at least one newspaper circulating in the constituency a notice stating—
- (a) the effect of the proposed recommendations and (except in a case where they propose to recommend that no alteration be made in respect of the constituency) that a copy of the recommendations is open to inspection at a specified place within the constituency, and
- (b) that representations with respect to the proposed recommendations may be made to the Commission within one month after the publication of the notice; and the Commission shall take into consideration any representations duly made in accordance with any such notice.
(3) Where a Boundary Commission revise any proposed recommendations after publishing a notice of them under subsection (2) above, the Commission shall comply again with that subsection in relation to the revised recommendations, as if no earlier notice had been published.
Local inquiries. 6.—(1) A Boundary Commission may, if they think fit, cause a local inquiry to be held in respect of any constituency or constituencies.
(2) Where, on the publication of the notice under section 5(2) above of a recommendation of a Boundary Commission for the alteration of any constituencies, the Commission receive any representation objecting to the proposed recommendation from an interested authority or from a body of electors numbering one hundred or more, the Commission shall not make the recommendation unless, since the publication of the notice, a local inquiry has been held in respect of the constituencies.
(3) Where a local inquiry was held in respect of the constituencies before the publication of the notice mentioned in subsection (2) above, that subsection shall not apply if the