Explanatory note

This Order gives effect without modification to the recommendations contained in the supplementary report of the Boundary Commission for Wales dated 22nd July 1988. The report contains proposals for changes to the areas comprised in the European Parliamentary constituencies of Mid and West Wales, South East Wales and South Wales where changes to the boundaries of parliamentary constituencies have resulted in inconsistencies between those boundaries and the boundaries of European Parliamentary constituencies. Article 2 of, and the Schedule to, this Order, set out the new constituencies, but by virtue of the provision referred to in article 1(2) these constituencies will only have effect from the next European Parliamentary general election.