Citation, commencement, extent and interpretation
1. (1) This Order may be cited as the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023.
(2) This Order comes into force on the fourteenth day after the day on which it is made.
(3) This Order extends to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
(4) In this Order—
(a) the local government areas, community council areas, wards, electoral divisions and polling districts set out in column 2 of the tables in Schedules 1, 3 and 4 are those areas, wards, divisions and districts as they existed on 1st December 2020, except where otherwise provided for in Schedule 1;
(b) the wards set out in column 2 of the table in Schedule 2 are those wards as they existed on 1st December 2020.
(5) In paragraph (4)(a) “local government area” has the same meaning as in—
(a) in respect of England and Wales, section 203(1) of the Representation of the People Act 1983;
1983 c. 2. The definition of “local government area” was amended by Part 1 of Schedule 9 to the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51), by Part 1 of Schedule 13 to the Education Reform Act 1988 (c. 40); by paragraph 68(16) of Schedule 16 to the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c. 19), and by paragraph 39 of Schedule 3 to the Greater London Authority Act 1999 (c. 29).
(b) in respect of Scotland, section 204(1) of that Act.
The definition of “local government area” was substituted by paragraph 130(8) of Schedule 13 to the Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994 (c. 39).