{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bermuda-constitution-amendment-order-2003/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bermuda-constitution-amendment-order-2003/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/456",
  "legislation_title": "The Bermuda Constitution (Amendment) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bermuda-constitution-amendment-order-2003",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Amendment of section 54 of Constitution",
  "text": "Section 54 of the Constitution is amended –\n(a) in subsection (1), by substituting the words “Bermuda is” for the words “the parishes of Bermuda are”;\n(b) by deleting subsection (2) and replacing it by the following –\n“(2) In determining whether or not to recommend any changes in the boundaries of the constituencies, 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 this Constitution; 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.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/456/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:31:13.410725+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}