{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-parliamentary-elections-act-1999-repealed/schedule-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-parliamentary-elections-act-1999-repealed/schedule-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1999/1",
  "legislation_title": "European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-parliamentary-elections-act-1999-repealed",
  "path": "schedule/1",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "New Schedule 2 to the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1978",
  "text": "“Schedule 2\nElectoral Regions in England\nElectoral regions\n1 The electoral regions for England shall be those listed in the Table below.\n2 (1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), a reference in the Table to a local government or administrative area is a reference to that area as it is for the time being.\n(2) Where an area specified in column (2) of the Table is altered, the alteration shall not have effect for the purposes of this Act until the first general election of MEPs at which the poll in the United Kingdom takes place after the alteration comes into force for all other purposes.\nNumber of MEPs elected for each region\n3 The number of MEPs elected for each electoral region in England shall be the number specified in column (3) of the Table.\n4 (1) As soon as possible after 16th February in each pre-election year the Secretary of State shall—\n(a) consider whether the ratio of registered electors to MEPs is as nearly as possible the same for every electoral region in England, and\n(b) make by order such amendments of column (3) of the Table as he considers necessary to ensure that result.\n(2) An order under sub-paragraph (1) shall not alter the total number of MEPs elected for electoral regions in England.\n(3) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) the Secretary of State shall consider the number of registered electors as at 16th February of the pre-election year.\n(4) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) a registered elector for an electoral region is a person whose name appears in a relevant register, or part of a relevant register, which relates to the region, other than a person who is—\n(a) a relevant citizen of the Union within the meaning of section 202(1) of the Representation of the People Act 1983 (interpretation), and\n(b) registered only for the purposes of local government elections.\n(5) The relevant registers are—\n(a) registers of parliamentary electors;\n(b) registers of local government electors;\n(c) registers of peers maintained under section 3(2) to (9) of the Representation of the People Act 1985 (peers resident outside the United Kingdom);\n(d) registers maintained under regulation 9 of the European Parliamentary Elections (Changes to the Franchise and Qualification of Representatives) Regulations 1994 (relevant citizens of the European Union).\n(6) In this paragraph “pre-election year” means any year after 2002 which immediately precedes a year in which general elections would be held in accordance with Article 10(2).\n(7) A statutory instrument made under sub-paragraph (1) shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.\nTABLE\n(1)\n(2)\n(3)\nName of region\nCounties, &c. included\nNumber of MEPs\nEast Midlands\nCounty of Derbyshire\nCounty of Derby\nCounty of Leicester\nCounty of Leicestershire\nCounty of Lincolnshire\nCounty of Northamptonshire\nCounty of Nottinghamshire\nCounty of Nottingham\nCounty of Rutland\n6\nEastern\nCounty of Bedfordshire\nCounty of Cambridgeshire\nCounty of Essex\nCounty of Hertfordshire\nCounty of Luton\nCounty of Norfolk\nCounty of Peterborough\nCounty of Southend-on-Sea\nCounty of Suffolk\nCounty of Thurrock\n8\nLondon\nThe administrative area of Greater London\n10\nNorth East\nCounty of Darlington\nCounty of Durham\nCounty of Hartlepool\nCounty of Middlesbrough\nCounty of Northumberland\nCounty of Redcar and Cleveland\nCounty of Stockton-on-Tees\nCounty of Tyne and Wear\n4\nNorth West\nCounty of Blackburn with Darwen\nCounty of Blackpool\nCounty of Cheshire\nCounty of Cumbria\nCounty of Greater Manchester\nCounty of Halton\nCounty of Lancashire\nCounty of Merseyside\nCounty of Warrington\n10\nSouth East\nCounty of Berkshire\nCounty of Brighton and Hove\nCounty of Buckinghamshire\nCounty of East Sussex\nCounty of Hampshire\nCounty of Isle of Wight\nCounty of Kent\nCounty of the Medway Towns\nCounty of Milton Keynes\nCounty of Oxfordshire\nCounty of Portsmouth\nCounty of Southampton\nCounty of Surrey\nCounty of West Sussex\n11\nSouth West\nCounty of Bath and North East Somerset\nCounty of Bournemouth\nCounty of the City of Bristol\nCounty of Cornwall\nCounty of Devon\nCounty of Dorset\nCounty of Gloucestershire\nCounty of North Somerset\nCounty of Plymouth\nCounty of Poole\nCounty of Somerset\nCounty of South Gloucestershire\nCounty of Swindon\nCounty of Torbay\nCounty of Wiltshire\nIsles of Scilly\n7\nWest Midlands\nCounty of Herefordshire\nCounty of Shropshire\nCounty of Staffordshire\nCounty of Stoke-on-Trent\nCounty of Telford and Wrekin\nCounty of Warwickshire\nCounty of West Midlands\nCounty of Worcestershire\n8\nYorkshire & The Humber\nCounty of the City of Kingston upon Hull\nCounty of the East Riding of Yorkshire\nCounty of North East Lincolnshire\nCounty of North Lincolnshire\nCounty of North Yorkshire\nCounty of South Yorkshire\nCounty of West Yorkshire\nCounty of York\n7\n”",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1983 c. 2."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1985 c. 50."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "S.I. 1994/342."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 in force at 1.5.1999 by S.I. 1999/717, art. 2(1) (subject to art. 2(3) of the commencing S.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1999/1/schedule/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:22:08.979752+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."
}