The European Parliamentary Constituencies (Wales) Order 1994
At the Court of Saint James, the 24th day of February 1994
Present,
The Counsellors of State in Council
Whereas Her Majesty in pursuance of the Regency Acts 1937 to 1953 was pleased, by Letters Patent dated the 16th February 1994, to delegate to the six Counsellors of State therein named or any two or more of them full power and authority during the period of Her Majesty’s absence from the United Kingdom to summon and hold on Her Majesty’s behalf Her Privy Council and to signify thereat Her Majesty’s approval for anything for which Her Majesty’s approval in Council is required:
And whereas the Secretary of State has laid that report before Parliament together with the draft of this Order in Council for giving effect to the recommendations contained in the report and each House of Parliament has by resolution approved that draft;
Now, therefore, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, and His Royal Highness The Prince Edward, being authorised thereto by the said Letters Patent, and in pursuance of paragraph 8(5) of Part II of the Schedule to the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1993, by and with the advice of Her Majesty’s Privy Council, do on Her Majesty’s behalf order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:
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This Order may be cited as the European Parliamentary Constituencies (Wales) Order 1994.
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SCHEDULENAMES AND AREAS OF EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES IN WALES
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Name | Contents |
North Wales | The parliamentary constituencies of—
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Mid and West Wales | The parliamentary constituencies of—
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South Wales West | The parliamentary constituencies of—
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South Wales Central | The parliamentary constituencies of—
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South Wales East | The parliamentary constituencies of—
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This Order gives effect without modification to the recommendations contained in the report of the European Parliamentary Constituencies Committee for Wales dated 16th December 1993. That Committee was established under the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1993 for the purpose of determining the European Parliamentary constituencies into which Wales should initially be divided in order to give effect to the increase (of one) that section 1 of that Act made to the number of such constituencies. This Order is expressed to come into force on the date when that section comes into force for all purposes (or all remaining purposes), but the effect of paragraph 8(1) of Schedule 2 to the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1978 (which applies by virtue of paragraph 8(5) of the Schedule to the 1993 Act) is that the constituencies constituted by this Order will only have effect from the first general election of representatives to the European Parliament after this Order comes into force.
Article 2 of, and the Schedule to, this Order set out the European Parliamentary constituencies into which Wales is to be divided.