§ 6. Each Assembly constituency shall be wholly comprised in one region or islands area in Scotland or in one county in Wales.
§ 7. The number of Assembly members for each region or islands area in Scotland or county in Wales shall be determined by the number of assembly quotas to the next whole number above contained in the electorate of the region, islands area or county.
§ 8. Where the number of assembly members for a region, islands area or county is seven or fewer, that region, islands area or county shall be an Assembly constituency.
§ 9. Where the number of assembly members for a region, islands area or county is eight or more, that region, islands area or county shall be divided into two or more Assembly constituencies, provided that:—
- (a) no such Assembly constituency shall have fewer than four members or more than eight members, and
- (b) as far as practicable each such Assembly constituency shall have five, six, or seven members, and
- (c) as far as practicable the ratio of Assembly members to electors shall be the same in each such Assembly constituency.
§ 10. In dividing a region, or county into Assembly constituencies, no district shall be included partly in one constituency and partly in another, except insofar as may be necessary to meet paragraph 9(a) above.
§ 11. A Boundary Commission may depart from the strict application 9 or 10 of this Schedule—
- (a) if special geographical considerations, including in particular the size, shape and accessibility of an Assembly constituency, appear to them to render the departure reasonable; or
- (b) if, taking account, so far as they reasonably can, of the inconvenience resulting from alterations of Assembly constituencies, and of any local ties which would be broken by such alterations, a departure appears to them desirable.'
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No. 265, in Schedule 1, page 70, line 6, leave out 'near' and insert
'nearly equal in its number of persons as the number of persons in'.
§ No. 267, in Schedule 1, page 70, line 13, leave out '125' and insert '150'.
§ No. 268, in Schedule 1, page 70, leave out lines 31 to 37.
§ No. 271, in Schedule 1, page 71, leave out lines 15 to 28.
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No. 146, in Clause 5, page 3, line 28, at end insert—
'(1A) Subject to subsection (5) of this section where the seat of an additional member of an Assembly is vacated the vacancy shall be filled by the first willing candidate of the party of the vacating member on the relevant party priority list as prepared at the preceding election under the provisions of sub-paragraph (3) of paragraph 2 of Schedule (Election of additional members) to this Act such candidate not already being a member and having indicated his willingness to fill the vacancy as required by the standing orders of the Assembly concerned.'
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