The Parliamentary Constituencies and Assembly Electoral Regions (Wales) Order 2006

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Parliamentary constituencies in Wales
     2. Wales shall be divided into the parliamentary constituencies—

(a) which are named in column 1 of Schedule 1 to this Order;

(b) which comprise the areas which are set out in column 2 of that Schedule opposite the name of the constituency; and

(c) which are designated as being either county constituencies or borough constituencies according to the name in column 1 of that Schedule.

Assembly electoral regions
     3. —(1) The Assembly electoral regions shall be the regions—

(a) which are named in column 1 of Schedule 2 to this Order; and

(b) which comprise the areas which are set out in column 2 of that Schedule opposite the name of the Assembly electoral region.

    (2) The areas set out in column 2 of that Schedule are the constituencies named in column 1 of Schedule 1 to this Order.

Electoral registers
     4. Each electoral registration officer for—

(a) the constituencies referred to in article 2; and

(b) the Assembly electoral regions referred to in article 3

shall make such re-arrangement or adaptation of the registers of parliamentary or, as the case may be, local government electors as may be necessary to give effect to this Order.

Revocation
     5. The Parliamentary Constituencies (Wales) Order 1995[5] is revoked.


A.K Galloway
Clerk of the Privy Council

[2] Cmnd. HC743-1back

[3] ()1998 c.38. The Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986 is extended by Schedule 1 to the Government of Wales Act 1998 (the 1998 Act) for the purposes of the alterations to the electoral regions of the National Assembly for Wales and the allocation of seats to those regions.back

[4] ()Following the coming into force of section 3(3) of, and Schedule 4 to, the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999 (c.1) (the 1999 Act), the alignment of the National Assembly for Wales electoral regions with European Parliamentary electoral constituencies has ceased. Wales is now a single European Parliamentary electoral region. The European Parliamentary Constituencies (Wales) Order 1994 (S.I. 1994/428), which provided for the alignment of the National Assembly for Wales electoral regions with the European Parliamentary electoral constituencies, and to which paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 1 to the 1998 Act refers, lapsed by reason of the 1999 Act's provisions.back

[5] S.I. 1995/1036.back

[6] For "preserved counties" see section 64(1) of the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c. 19) (the 1994 Act) and paragraph 4(1)(a) and (1A) of Schedule 2 to the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986. Paragraph 4(1A) was inserted by the 1994Act.back

[7] Cmnd. HC 743-1back

[8] S.I. 1995/1036.back

[9] 1986 c. 56.back

[10] 1998 c.38.back