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3(1)If, having considered the Assembly electoral region issue, the Committee have provisionally determined to propose recommendations affecting any Assembly electoral region, they must publish a notice in at least one newspaper circulating in that region.
(2)The notice must state—
(a)the effect of the proposed recommendations,
(b)(except where the effect of the recommendations is that no alteration affecting the Assembly electoral region be made) that a copy of the recommendations is open to inspection at one or more specified places within each Assembly constituency included in the Assembly electoral region, and
(c)that representations with respect to the recommendations may be made to the Committee within one month after the publication of the notice.
(3)The Committee must take into consideration any representations duly made in accordance with the notice.
(4)If the Committee revise any proposed recommendations after publishing a notice of them under sub-paragraph (1), they must comply again with sub-paragraphs (1) to (3) in relation to the revised proposed recommendations as if no earlier notice had been published.
(5)The Committee need not comply with sub-paragraph (1) or (4) if—
(a)the proposed recommendations (or the revised proposed recommendations) are only for an alteration in the number of seats for the Assembly electoral region, and
(b)the proposed (or revised proposed) total number of seats for the Assembly electoral regions is exactly divisible by five.
(6)If the Committee’s proposed (or revised proposed) total number of seats for the Assembly electoral regions is not exactly divisible by five, a recommendation for an alteration in the number of seats for any Assembly electoral region is (for the purposes of this paragraph and paragraph 4) a recommendation which also affects all the other Assembly electoral regions.
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