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Government of Wales Act 2006

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593.Under section 3A(3) of the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986, when the Electoral Commission receives the recommendations of the Boundary Committee in relation to parliamentary constituencies, the Commission may :

a)

accept all the Committee’s recommendations and include them in its report to the Secretary of State;

b)

agree changes to the recommendations with the Committee, and then include the changed recommendations in its report; or

c)

reject the recommendations

594.If it rejects the recommendations, it must either:

a)

require the Boundary Committee to reconsider them, with a view to the Committee submitting different recommendations to the Commission; or

b)

require the Committee to carry out a fresh review of the whole or part of the area it had originally reviewed; or

c)

only in a case where the purpose of the Boundary Committee’s review was to enable the Electoral Commission to submit a report under section 3(3) of the Parliamentary Constituencies Act, take no further action.

595.A report under section 3 (3) of the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986 is the one which the Electoral Commission has power to submit to the Secretary of State in relation to a particular area of the United Kingdom, making recommendations about the division of that area into parliamentary constituencies, in order to ensure that rules set out in Schedule 2 to the Parliamentary Constituencies Act are complied with.

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