The Parliamentary Constituencies (Northern Ireland) Order 1995

Made: 23rd November 1995

Coming into force in accordance with article 1(2)

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 23rd day of November 1995 Present, The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, in pursuance of section 4 of the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986 (as enacted and as applied by section 28(4) of the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973[^f00003]) and section 28(5) of the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973[^f00004], is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:

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• (1) This Order may be cited as the Parliamentary Constituencies (Northern Ireland) Order 1995.

• (2) Subject to section 4(6) of the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986 and section 28(6) of the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973[^f00005], this Order shall come into force on the fourteenth day after the day on which it is made.

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• (1) For all the constituencies in Northern Ireland there shall be substituted the constituencies which—

• (a) are named in the left-hand column of the Schedule to this Order;

• (b) are designated in that column as either county constituencies or borough constituencies; and

• (c) comprise the areas set out in the right-hand column of that Schedule.

• (2) The areas set out in the right-hand column of the Schedule to this Order are local government areas as they existed on 1st June 1994.

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• (1) Section 1(1) of the Northern Ireland Assembly Act 1973[^f00006] shall be amended by the substitution of the words “90 members” for the words “85 members”.

• (2) For the Schedule to the Northern Ireland Assembly Act 1973[^f00007], there shall be substituted the following Schedule:

SCHEDULE

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The Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland shall make such re-arrangement or adaptation of the register of parliamentary electors as may be necessary to give effect to this Order.

SCHEDULE — NAMES, DESIGNATION AND COMPOSITION OF CONSTITUENCIES IN NORTHERN IRELAND

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 set out in the report and supplementary report of the Boundary Commission for Northern Ireland dated 20th June 1995. The report sets out proposals for parliamentary constituencies in Northern Ireland consequent on a review by the Commission of the representation in the House of Commons of Northern Ireland.

Article 2 of, and the Schedule to, this Order give effect to those proposals. By virtue of section 4(6) of the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986, the coming into force of this 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.

Article 3 of this Order amends the Northern Ireland Assembly Act 1973 in consequence of giving effect to the recommendations in the supplementary report. Article 3(1) amends section 1(1) of that Act so that any future Northern Ireland Assembly shall consist of 90 members. Article 3(2) amends the Schedule to that Act by setting out the new constituencies and the number of members to be returned for each.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1986 c. 56.

[^f00002]: 1973 c. 36; section 28(2) was amended by paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 3 to the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986.

[^f00003]: Section 28(4) was amended by paragraph 1(4) of Schedule 3 to the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986.

[^f00004]: Section 28(5) was substituted by paragraph 1(5) of Schedule 3 to the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986.

[^f00005]: Section 28(6) was substituted by paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 to the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986.

[^f00006]: 1973 c. 17.

[^f00007]: The Schedule was substituted by article 3(2) of the Parliamentary Constituencies (Northern Ireland) Order 1982 (S.I. 1982/1838).