The Parliamentary Constituencies (England) (Miscellaneous Changes) Order 1990

Statutory Instruments

1990 No. 1307

REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE

REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS

The Parliamentary Constituencies (England) (Miscellaneous Changes) Order 1990

Made

26th June 1990

Coming into force in accordance with article 1(2)

At the Court of Saint James,

the 26th day of June 1990

Present,

The Counsellors of State in Council

Whereas in pursuance of section 3(3) of the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986(1) the Boundary Commission for England have submitted to the Secretary of State a report dated 28th February 1990 with respect to the areas comprised in certain constituencies in England and showing the constituencies into which they recommend, in accordance with the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986, that the areas should be divided:

And whereas the Secretary of State has laid that report before Parliament together with the draft of this Order in Council to give effect to the recommendations contained in the report and each House of Parliament has by resolution approved the said draft:

And whereas Her Majesty, in pursuance of the Regency Acts 1937 to 1953, was pleased, by Letters Patent dated the 15th day of June 1990 to delegate to the six Counsellors of State therein named or any two or more of them full power and authority during the period of Her Majesty’s absence from the United Kingdom to summon and hold on Her Majesty’s behalf Her Privy Council and to signify thereat Her Majesty’s approval for anything for which Her Majesty’s approval in Council is required:

Now, therefore, His Royal Highness the Prince Charles, Prince of Wales and His Royal Highness the Prince Edward, being authorised thereto by the said Letters Patent, and in pursuance of section 4 of the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986 and by and with the advice of Her Majesty’s Privy Council, do on Her Majesty’s behalf order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Parliamentary Constituencies (England) (Miscellaneous Changes) Order 1990.

(2) Subject to section 4(6) of the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986, this Order shall come into force on the fourteenth day after the day on which it is made.

2.  For the county constituencies of Buckingham and Milton Keynes as constituted by the Schedule to the Parliamentary Constituencies (England) Order 1983(2), there shall be substituted the constituencies which are named in the Schedule to this Order and comprise the areas set out in that Schedule, which areas are local government areas as they existed on 28th February 1990.

3.  Each electoral registration officer shall make such re-arrangement or adaptation of the registers of parliamentary electors as may be necessary to give effect to this Order.

G.I. de Deney

Clerk of the Privy Council

SCHEDULE NEW CONSTITUENCIES

Buckingham (county constituency)

The following wards of the district of Aylesbury Vale, namely, Bierton, Brill, Buckingham North, Buckingham South, Cheddington, Eddlesborough, Great Brickhill, Great Horwood, Grendon Underwood, Haddenham, Hogshaw, Long Crendon, Luffield Abbey, Marsh Gibbon, Newton Longville, Oakley, Pitstone, Quainton, Steeple Claydon, Stewkley, Stone, Tingewick, Waddesdon, Wing, Wingrave and Winslow.

Milton Keynes South West (borough constituency)

The following wards of the Borough of Milton Keynes, namely, Church Green, Denbigh, Eaton, Fenny Stratford, Loughton, Manor Farm, Newton, Stony Stratford, Whaddon, Wolverton, Wolverton Stacey Bushes and Woughton.

North East Milton Keynes (county constituency)

The following wards of the Borough of Milton Keynes, namely, Bradwell, Danesborough, Lavendon, Linford, Newport Pagnell, Olney, Pineham, Sherington, Stantonbury and Woburn Sands.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order gives effect without modification to the recommendations contained in the report of the Boundary Commission for England dated 28th February 1990.

The report contains proposals to substitute the three Parliamentary constituencies described in the Schedule to the Order for the two existing constituencies of Buckingham and Milton Keynes.

By virtue of section 4(6) of the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986 the coming into force of this Order does not affect any parliamentary election until a proclamation is issued by Her Majesty summoning a new Parliament.

(1)

1986 c. 56.

(2)

S.I. 1983/417.