1(1)The number of constituencies in Great Britain shall not be substantially greater or less than 613.U.K.
F1(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(3)The number of constituencies in Wales shall not be less than 35.
(4)The number of constituencies in Northern Ireland shall not be greater than 18 or less than 16, and shall be 17 unless it appears to the Boundary Commission for Northern Ireland that Northern Ireland should for the time being be divided into 16 or (as the case may be) into 18 constituencies.
Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 2 rule 1(2) repealed (1.7.1999) by 1998 c. 46, ss. 86(2), 125, Sch. 9 (with s. 126(3)-(11)); S.I. 1998/3178, art. 2(1)