Statutory Instrument 1995 No. 1036

The Parliamentary Constituencies (Wales) Order 1995

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1995 No. 1036

REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE
REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS

The Parliamentary Constituencies (Wales) Order 1995

Made	11th April 1995

Coming into force in accordance with article 1(2)

At the Court at Windsor Castle, the 11th day of April 1995

Present,

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Whereas in pursuance of section 3(1) of the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986^[1] the Boundary Commission for Wales have submitted to the Secretary of State a report dated 16th December 1994 showing the constituencies into which they recommend, in accordance with that Act, that Wales 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, without modifications, to the recommendations contained in the report and each House of Parliament has by resolution approved the said draft;

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, in pursuance of section 4 of the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986, 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 Parliamentary Constituencies (Wales) Order 1995.

    (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.—(1)  For all the constituencies in Wales there shall be substituted the constituencies which—
 (a) are named in the left-hand column of the Schedule to this Order;
 (b) are designated in that column as either county constituencies or borough constituencies; and
 (c) comprise the areas set out in the right-hand column of that Schedule.

    (2)  The areas set out in the right-hand column of the Schedule to this Order are local government areas as they existed on 16th December 1994 except that the wards in the Borough of Blaenau Gwent are the wards as they would exist if the Borough of Blaenau Gwent (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1992^[2] had come into full force.

    3.    Each electoral registration officer for the constituencies referred to in article 2 above shall make such re-arrangement or adaptation of the register of parliamentary electors as may be necessary to give effect to this Order.

N. H. Nicholls

Clerk of the Privy Council

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Notes:

[1] 1986 c. 56.

[2] S.I. 1992/2600.

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