The European Parliamentary Constituencies (Wales) Order 1994

Made: 24th February 1994

Coming into force in accordance with article 1(2)

At the Court of Saint James, the 24th day of February 1994 Present, The Counsellors of State in Council

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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• (1) This Order may be cited as the European Parliamentary Constituencies (Wales) Order 1994.

• (2) Subject to paragraph 8 of Schedule 2 to the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1978[^f00002], this Order shall come into force when section 1 of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1993 comes into force for all purposes or all remaining purposes, as the case may be.

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For all the European Parliamentary constituencies in Wales (which are described in the European Parliamentary Constituencies (Wales) Order 1984[^f00003] and the European Parliamentary Constituencies (Wales) (Miscellaneous Changes) Order 1989[^f00004]) there shall be substituted the European Parliamentary constituencies which are named in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order and comprise the parliamentary constituencies specified opposite thereto in column 2 of that Schedule, being parliamentary constituencies as they exist on 16th December 1993 and as described in the Parliamentary Constituencies (Wales) Order 1983[^f00005] and the Parliamentary Constituencies (Wales) (Miscellaneous Changes) Orders 1986[^f00006], 1987[^f00007] and 1993[^f00008].

SCHEDULE — NAMES AND AREAS OF EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES IN WALES

Signed

N. H. Nicholls — Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

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.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1993 c. 41.

[^f00002]: 1978 c. 10; paragraph 8(1) was amended by paragraph 5(9) of Schedule 3 to the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986 (c. 56) and the title of the 1978 Act was amended by section 3(1)(b) and (2)(b) of the European Communities (Amendment) Act 1986 (c. 58) on the coming into force of the Single European Act (Cmnd. 9758).

[^f00003]: S.I. 1984/545.

[^f00004]: S.I. 1989/487.

[^f00005]: S.I. 1983/418.

[^f00006]: S.I. 1986/2231.

[^f00007]: S.I. 1987/2050.

[^f00008]: S.I. 1993/227.