Boundary Commissions Act 1992

2 Time limits for submission of reports

(1) This section has effect with respect to reports of the Boundary Commissions under subsection (1) of section 3 of the 1986 Act (in this section referred to as “mandatory reports”).

(2) The first mandatory report of each Boundary Commission which falls to be made after the passing of this Act shall be submitted to the Secretary of State not later than 31st December 1994, instead of fifteen years from the date of the submission of the Commission’s last mandatory report.

(3) Except as respects a report to which subsection (2) above applies, subsection (2) of section 3 of the 1986 Act shall have effect with the substitution for the words “not less than ten or more than fifteen years” of the words “not less than eight or more than twelve years”.

(4) After subsection (2) of section 3 of the 1986 Act there shall be inserted the following subsection—

“(2A) A failure by a Boundary Commission to submit a report within the time limit which is appropriate to that report shall not be regarded as invalidating the report for the purposes of any enactment.”