Statutory Instruments
REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS
Made
11th February 1992
Coming into force in accordance with article 1(2)
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 11th day of February 1992
Present,
The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Whereas in pursuance of paragraph 3 of Schedule 2 to the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1978(1), the Boundary Commission for England have submitted to the Secretary of State a supplementary report dated 18th November 1991 with respect to the areas comprised in certain European Parliamentary constituencies in England and showing the European Parliamentary constituencies into which they recommend, in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 9 of the said Schedule 2, 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 that draft:
Now, therefore, Her Majesty, in pursuance of paragraph 4B of Schedule 2 to the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1978(2), is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the European Parliamentary Constituencies (England) (Miscellaneous Changes) Order 1992.
(2) Subject to paragraph 8(1) of Schedule 2 to the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1978(3), this Order shall come into force on 1st January1993.
2. For the two European Parliamentary constituencies of Bedfordshire South and Oxford and Buckinghamshire as constituted by the European Parliamentary Constituencies (England) (Miscellaneous Changes) Order 1989(4) (and described by reference to the parliamentary constituencies referred to in that Order), there shall be substituted the two European Parliamentary constituencies named on the left-hand side of the Schedule to this Order and comprising the parliamentary constituencies which are set out on the right-hand side and which are constituted—
(a)in the case of the Luton South, North Luton, Oxford West and Abingdon, South West Bedfordshire, Stevenage and West Hertfordshire constituencies, by the Parliamentary Constituencies (England) (Miscellaneous Changes) Order 1987(5);
(b)in the case of the Aylesbury and Chesham and Amersham constituencies, by the Parliamentary Constituencies (England) (Miscellaneous Changes) (No. 3) Order 1987(6);
(c)in the case of the Buckingham, Milton Keynes South West and North East Milton Keynes constituencies, by the Parliamentary Constituencies (England) (Miscellaneous Changes) Order 1990(7), and
(d)in the case of the Beaconsfield, Henley, North Hertfordshire, Oxford East and Wycombe constituencies by the Parliamentary Constituencies (England) Order 1983(8).
G. I. de Deney
Clerk of the Privy Council
Article 2
| (1) | (2) |
|---|---|
| Name | Contents |
| Oxford and Buckinghamshire | The parliamentary constituencies of— |
| Aylesbury | |
| Beaconsfield | |
| Buckingham | |
| Chesham and Amersham | |
| Henley | |
| Oxford East | |
| Oxford West and Abingdon | |
| Wycombe | |
| North Chilterns | The parliamentary constituencies of— |
| Luton South | |
| Milton Keynes South West | |
| North East Milton Keynes | |
| North Hertfordshire | |
| North Luton | |
| South West Bedfordshire | |
| Stevenage | |
| West Hertfordshire |
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order gives effect without modification to the recommendations contained in the supplementary report of the Boundary Commission for England dated 18th November 1991. The report contains proposals for changes to the areas comprised in the two European Parliamentary constituencies referred to in article 2 of the Order where changes to the boundaries of parliamentary constituencies have resulted in inconsistencies between those boundaries and the boundaries of European Parliamentary constituencies. Article 2 of, and the Schedule to, this Order set out the new constituencies, but by virtue of the provision referred to in article 1(2) these constituencies will only have effect from the next European Parliamentary general election.
1978 c. 10; paragraph 3 of Schedule 2 was substituted by section 1(3) of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1981 (c. 8) and amended by paragraph 5(3) of Schedule 3 to the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986 (c. 56); and the words “European Parliamentary” were substituted for the words “European Assembly” in the provisions concerning the citation of the 1978 and 1981 Acts by section 3(1)(b) and (2)(b) of the European Communities (Amendment) Act 1986 (c. 58) on the coming into force of the Single European Act on 1st July 1987.
Paragraph 4B was inserted by paragraph 5(4) of Schedule 3 to the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986.
Paragraph 8(1) was amended by paragraph 5(9) of Schedule 3 to the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986.
S.I. 1989/486.
S.I. 1987/462.
S.I. 1987/2208.
S.I. 1990/1307.
S.I. 1983/417.