SCHEDULES
I1SCHEDULE 1 Assembly constituencies and Assembly electoral regions
Notices of proposed recommendations affecting Assembly electoral regions
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1
Where, after the consideration required by F1paragraph 4(1), the Commission have provisionally determined to propose (in pursuance of paragraph 4(2)) recommendations affecting any Assembly electoral region, they shall publish a notice in at least one newspaper circulating in the Assembly electoral region.
2
The notice shall state—
a
the effect of the proposed recommendations,
b
(except where F1 their effects is that no alteration affecting the Assembly electoral region be made) that a copy of the proposed 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 proposed recommendations may be made F1to the Committee within one month after the publication of the notice.
3
F1The Committee shall take into consideration any representations duly made in accordance with any notice published under sub-paragraph (1).
4
Where F1the Committee revise any proposed recommendations after publishing a notice of them under sub-paragraph (1), the Commission shall comply again with that sub-paragraph in relation to the revised proposed recommendations, as if no earlier notice had been published.
5
F1The Committee is not required to comply with sub-paragraph (1) or (4) if the proposed recommendations (or the revised proposed recommendations)—
a
are only for an alteration in the number of Assembly seats for the Assembly electoral region, and
b
the proposed (or the revised proposed) total number of Assembly seats for the Assembly electoral regions is exactly divisible by five.
F25A
Where the Electoral Commission are minded to exercise in relation to the Committee’s proposed recommendations any of the powers conferred by section 3A(3)(b) or (c) of the 1986 Act (as applied by paragraph 4(3) above) they shall have regard to—
a
any representations duly made with respect to the recommendations in accordance with any notice published under sub-paragraph (1); or
b
(where they are minded to exercise any of those powers in relation to part only of the Assembly electoral region) any representations so made with respect to the recommendations so far as relating to that part of the region.
F25B
Where the Committee’s proposed recommendations have been modified by the Electoral Commission under section 3A(3)(b) of the 1986 Act (as applied by paragraph 4(3) above), the Committee shall publish in at least one newspaper circulating in the Assembly electoral region a notice stating the effect of those recommendations as so modified.
6
Where the proposed (or the revised proposed) total number of Assembly seats for the Assembly electoral regions is not exactly divisible by five, a recommendation for an alteration in the number of Assembly seats for any Assembly electoral region shall be taken (for the purposes of this paragraph and paragraph 6) to be one which also affects all the other Assembly electoral regions.
Sch. 1 in force at 1.12.1998 by S.I. 1998/2789, art. 2