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5(1)Where, after the consideration required by paragraph 4, the Commission have provisionally determined to make recommendations affecting any Assembly electoral region, they shall publish a notice in at least one newspaper circulating in the Assembly electoral region.
(2)The notice shall state—
(a)the effect of the proposed recommendations,
(b)(except where the Commission propose to recommend that no alteration affecting the Assembly electoral region be made) that a copy of the proposed recommendations is open to inspection at one or more specified places within each Assembly constituency included in the Assembly electoral region, and
(c)that representations with respect to the proposed recommendations may be made to the Commission within one month after the publication of the notice.
(3)The Commission shall take into consideration any representations duly made in accordance with any notice published under sub-paragraph (1).
(4)Where the Commission revise any proposed recommendations after publishing a notice of them under sub-paragraph (1), the Commission shall comply again with that sub-paragraph in relation to the revised proposed recommendations, as if no earlier notice had been published.
(5)The Commission is not required to comply with sub-paragraph (1) or (4) if the proposed recommendations (or the revised proposed recommendations)—
(a)are only for an alteration in the number of Assembly seats for the Assembly electoral region, and
(b)the proposed (or the revised proposed) total number of Assembly seats for the Assembly electoral regions is exactly divisible by five.
(6)Where the proposed (or the revised proposed) total number of Assembly seats for the Assembly electoral regions is not exactly divisible by five, a recommendation for an alteration in the number of Assembly seats for any Assembly electoral region shall be taken (for the purposes of this paragraph and paragraph 6) to be one which also affects all the other Assembly electoral regions.
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