(1)A local authority must if requested by the Boundary Committee to do so provide the Boundary Committee, by such date as the Boundary Committee may specify, with any information that the Boundary Committee may reasonably require in connection with any of their functions under section 5.
(2)In making a recommendation or alternative proposal under section 5 the Boundary Committee must have regard to any guidance from the Secretary of State about the exercise of the Boundary Committee’s functions under that section.
(3)Any recommendation or alternative proposal under section 5 must be made no later than the relevant date.
(4)Before making an alternative proposal under section 5(3)(c) the Boundary Committee must—
(a)publish a draft of the proposal; and
(b)take such steps as they consider sufficient to secure that persons who may be interested are informed of—
(i)the draft proposal; and
(ii)the period within which representations about it may be made to the Boundary Committee.
(5)The Boundary Committee—
(a)must take into account any representations made to them within that period; and
(b)if they make any proposal to the Secretary of State, must inform any person who made such representations—
(i)of the proposal made; and
(ii)that representations about the proposal may be made to the Secretary of State until the end of the relevant period.
(6)In subsection (5)(b) “the relevant period” means four weeks beginning with the relevant date.
(7)In this section and section 7 “the relevant date” means the date specified in the request under section 4(2) (or, if a later date is substituted under section 4(3), the date substituted (or last substituted) under that provision).