{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bermuda-constitution-amendment-order-2001/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/2579",
  "legislation_title": "The Bermuda Constitution (Amendment) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bermuda-constitution-amendment-order-2001",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Recommendations for single-member constituencies",
  "text": "(1) Notwithstanding section 54 of the Constitution, the following provisions shall have effect in relation to a Constituency Boundaries Commission first appointed in accordance with section 53 of the Constitution after the date on which this Order comes into force.\n(2) A Constituency Boundaries Commission so appointed shall, as soon as practicable after its appointment, prepare and submit to the Governor a report recommending the number, being no fewer than twenty nor greater than forty, and boundaries of constituencies into which Bermuda should be divided with a view to each such constituency returning one member to the House of Assembly.\n(3) In preparing its report under subsection (2) of this section the Commission shall ensure that the constituencies shall contain, so far as is reasonably practicable, equal numbers of persons qualified to be registered as electors under section 55 of the Constitution as amended by this Order; and in doing so the Commission—\n(a) shall take no account of the racial distribution of electors within Bermuda;\n(b) shall take account of geographical features and natural boundaries within Bermuda;\n(c) may ignore the boundaries of parishes; and\n(d) shall ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that each constituency is a contiguous unit.\n(4) For the purpose of the discharge of its functions, the Commission shall invite views from members of the public and may seek such advice as it considers appropriate.\n(5) The Governor shall forthwith transmit to the Secretary of State a report submitted to him by the Commission under subsection (2) of this section, together with the record of any debate in the House of Assembly on that report including any motion approved by the House in relation to the report.\n(6) Section 53 of the Constitution shall apply for the purposes of this section, save that in subsections (4)(a) and (5)(a) the references to section 54 of the Constitution shall have effect as if they were references to subsection (2) of this section.",
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  "version": "current",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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