Paragraph 12

In Part II of this Schedule and this paragraph in their application to a part of Great Britain for which there is a Boundary Commission—

• “electoral quota” means the number obtained by dividing the electorate of that part of Great Britain by the number of F1European Parliamentary constituencies specified for that part in paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 1 to this Act;

• “electorate” means—

  1. (a)

     in relation to an European Parliamentary constituency, the number of persons whose names appear on the relevant registers for that European Parliamentary constituency in force on the enumeration date;

  2. (b)

     in relation to that part of Great Britain, the number of persons whose names appear on the relevant registers for that part of Great Britain in force on the enumeration date;

• F2 “enumeration date” means, in relation to any supplementary report of a Boundary Commission under this Schedule, the date on which the notice with respect to that report is published in accordance with F3paragraph 4A above;

• C1“the relevant registers” means the following registers under the Representation of the People Acts, namely—

  1. (a)

     in relation to an European Parliamentary constituency, the registers of parliamentary electors to be used at an European Parliamentary election in that European Parliamentary constituency;

  2. (b)

     in relation to that part of Great Britain, the registers of parliamentary electors for the parliamentary constituencies in that part.