Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000

20 (1) Paragraph 5 (notices of proposed recommendations) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In sub-paragraph (1)—

(a) for “the Commission have provisionally determined to make” there shall be substituted “the Committee have provisionally determined to propose (in pursuance of paragraph 4A(2))”;

(b) for “they propose to recommend” there shall be substituted “their effect is”; and

(c) for “to the Commission” and “the Commission shall” there shall be substituted “to the Committee” and “the Committee shall” respectively.

(3) In sub-paragraph (2), for “the Commission”, wherever occurring, there shall be substituted “the Committee”.

(4) After sub-paragraph (2) there shall be inserted—

“(3) Where the Electoral Commission are minded to exercise in relation to the Committee’s proposed recommendations any of the powers conferred by section 3A(3)(b) or (c) of the 1986 Act (as applied by paragraph 4A(3) above) they shall have regard to—

(a) any representations duly made with respect to the recommendations in accordance with any notice published under sub-paragraph (1); or

(b) (where they are minded to exercise any of those powers in relation to part only of the region) any representations so made with respect to the recommendations so far as relating to that part of the region.

(4) Where the Committee’s proposed recommendations have been modified by the Electoral Commission under section 3A(3)(b) of the 1986 Act (as applied by paragraph 4A(3) above), the Committee shall publish in at least one newspaper circulating in the region a notice stating the effect of those recommendations as so modified.”