(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order gives effect, without modification, to the recommendations set out in the report of the Boundary Commission for Northern Ireland dated 14th September 2007. The report sets out proposals for parliamentary constituencies in Northern Ireland consequent on a review by the Commission of representation in the House of Commons of Northern Ireland.
Article 2 of, and the Schedule to, the Order give effect to those proposals. By virtue of section 4(6) of the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986 (c.56), the coming into force of the Order does not affect any parliamentary election until a proclamation is issued by Her Majesty summoning a new Parliament, or affect the constitution of the House of Commons until the dissolution of the Parliament then in being.