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Section 1

SCHEDULE 2 Transitional modifications of Schedule 1 to the Scotland Act 1998

Electoral Commission and Boundary Committee for Scotland

1 Any reference to the Electoral Commission or to the Boundary Committee for Scotland (or to both) must be construed as a reference to the Boundary Commission for Scotland.

Review and proposed recommendations by Boundary Committee for Scotland

2 Paragraph 5 must be ignored.

Notice of proposed report or recommendation

3 (1) Paragraph 7 is modified as follows.

(2) For sub-paragraph (2) there is substituted the following sub-paragraph—

“(2) If the Boundary Commission for Scotland have provisionally determined to make recommendations affecting a constituency they must publish in at least one newspaper circulating in the constituency a notice stating—

(a) the effect of the recommendations and (except if the effect is that no alteration should be made in respect of the constituency) that a copy of the recommendations is open to inspection at a specified place in the constituency, and

(b) that representations with respect to the proposed recommendations may be made to the Commission before the end of the period of one month starting the day after the notice is published.”

(3) Sub-paragraphs (5) and (6) must be ignored.

4 (1) Paragraph 8 is modified as follows.

(2) For sub-paragraph (1) there is substituted the following sub-paragraph—

“(1) This paragraph applies if the Boundary Commission for Scotland provisionally determine to make recommendations which would involve any alteration in a constituency.”

(3) Sub-paragraph (3) must be ignored.

Section 3

SCHEDULE 3 Current Boundary Commission reviews

1 This Schedule has effect in relation to any report of the Boundary Commission for Scotland under section 3 of the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986 (c. 56) which is submitted to the Secretary of State at any time before the passing of this Act.

2 Any recommendation included in the report in pursuance of paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46) (as it had effect at that time) (duty of Boundary Commission to make recommendations as to regions and regional members) must be ignored.

3 (1) This paragraph applies if before the passing of this Act the Secretary of State has laid before Parliament—

(a) a report containing such recommendations, and

(b) a draft of an Order in Council giving effect (with or without modification) to the recommendations of the Boundary Commission.

(2) The Secretary of State must—

(a) withdraw the draft of the Order in Council;

(b) lay a new draft of an Order giving effect (with or without modification) to the recommendations of the Boundary Commission (ignoring any recommendation mentioned in paragraph 2).

4 (1) This paragraph applies if before the passing of this Act an Order in Council has been made giving effect (with or without modifications) to recommendations mentioned in paragraph 2.

(2) So much of the Order as relates to regions or regional members for the purposes of that Schedule must be ignored.