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1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Parliamentary Constituencies and Assembly Electoral Regions (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2011.
(2) Subject to section 4(6) of the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986(1), this Order comes into force on the fourteenth day after the day on which it is made.
2. The Parliamentary Constituencies and Assembly Electoral Regions (Wales) Order 2006(2) is amended as follows.
3. In article 1—
(a)in paragraph (3)(b), at the beginning insert “subject to paragraph (4),”;
(b)after paragraph (3) insert—
“(4) Any reference in this Order to an electoral division or a local government area, where it relates to an Assembly constituency (as referred to in article 2A), is a reference to that division or area as it existed on 1st December 2010.”.
4. After article 2 insert—
2A. For the purposes of Part 1 of the Government of Wales Act 2006 the Assembly constituencies shall be the constituencies—
(a)which are named in column 1 of Schedule 1 to this Order; and
(b)which comprise the areas which are set out in column 2 of that Schedule opposite the name of the constituency.”.
5. In article 3(2), for “the constituencies” substitute “the Assembly constituencies referred to in article 2A and”.
6. In the heading to Schedule 1, after “CONSTITUENCIES” insert “AND ASSEMBLY CONSTITUENCIES”.
7.—(1) Each electoral registration officer for—
(a)the Assembly constituencies; and
(b)the Assembly electoral regions,
affected by this Order, shall make such re-arrangement or adaptation of the registers of local government electors as may be necessary to give effect to this Order.
(2) In this article “the Assembly constituencies” and “the Assembly electoral regions” are the constituencies and regions referred to in section 2 of the Government of Wales Act 2006.
Judith Simpson
Clerk of the Privy Council
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