Paragraph 5A F1

A Boundary Commission may, if they think fit, cause a local inquiry to be held in respect of any F2European Parliamentary constituency or constituencies.

Where, on the publication of the notice under paragraph 5 above of a recommendation of a Boundary Commission for the alteration of any European Parliamentary constituencies, the Commission receive any representation objecting to the proposed recommendation from an interested authority or from a body of electors numbering five hundred or more, the Commission shall not make the recommendation unless, since the publication of the notice, a local inquiry has been held in respect of the European Parliamentary constituencies.

Where a local inquiry was held in respect of the European Parliamentary constituencies before the publication of the notice mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) above, that sub-paragraph shall not apply if the Commission, after considering the matters discussed at the local inquiry, the nature of the representations received on the publication of the notice and any other relevant circumstances, are of opinion that a further local inquiry would not be justified.

In sub-paragraph (2) above, “interested authority” and “elector” respectively means, in relation to any recommendation, a local authority whose area is wholly or partly comprised in the European Parliamentary constituencies affected by the recommendation, and an elector for any of those European Parliamentary constituencies; and for this purpose “local authority” means—