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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-constituencies-act-1986/schedule-2/paragraph-5",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/56",
  "legislation_title": "Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-constituencies-act-1986",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A Boundary Commission may take into account, if and to such extent as they think fit—\n(a) special geographical considerations, including in particular the size, shape and accessibility of a constituency;\n(b) local government boundaries which exist, or are prospective, on the review date;\n(c) boundaries of existing constituencies;\n(d) any local ties that would be broken by changes in constituencies;\n(e) the inconveniences attendant on such changes.\n(1A) In the case of a local government boundary which is prospective on the review date, it is that boundary rather than any existing boundary which it replaces, which may be taken into account under sub-paragraph (1)(b).\n(2) The Boundary Commission for England may take into account, if and to such extent as they think fit, boundaries of the English regions specified in sub-paragraph (2A) as they exist on the most recent ordinary council-election day before the review date.\n(2A) The English regions listed in column (1) of the Table below comprise the areas specified in column (2) of the Table (and a reference to an area specified in column (2) of the Table is to that area as it is for the time being).\nTable\n(1)\n(2)\nName of Region\nArea included\nEast Midlands\nCounty of Derby\nCounty of Derbyshire\nCounty of Leicester\nCounty of Leicestershire\nCounty of Lincolnshire\nCounty of Northamptonshire\nCounty of Nottingham\nCounty of Nottinghamshire\nCounty of Rutland\nEastern\nCounty of Bedford\nCounty of Central 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\nLondon\nGreater London\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\nNorth West\nCounty of Blackburn with Darwen\nCounty of Blackpool\nCounty of Cheshire East\nCounty of Cheshire West and Chester\nCounty of Cumbria\nCounty of Greater Manchester\nCounty of Halton\nCounty of Lancashire\nCounty of Merseyside\nCounty of Warrington\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\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\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\nYorkshire and 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\n(3) This rule has effect subject to rules 2 and 4.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 substituted (16.2.2011) by Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 (c. 1), ss. 11(1), 19(1) (with s. 13(5))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 2 rule 5(1)(b) substituted (14.12.2020) by Parliamentary Constituencies Act 2020 (c. 25), ss. 6(2), 14(2) (with s. 13(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 2 rule 5(1A) inserted (14.12.2020) by Parliamentary Constituencies Act 2020 (c. 25), ss. 6(3), 14(2) (with s. 13(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 rule 5(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The European Parliamentary Elections Etc. (Repeal, Revocation, Amendment and Saving Provisions) (United Kingdom and Gibraltar) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1310), reg. 1, Sch. 2 para. 1(2) (as amended by S.I. 2019/1389, regs. 1, 2(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Sch. 2 rule 5(2A) inserted (31.12.2020) by The European Parliamentary Elections Etc. (Repeal, Revocation, Amendment and Saving Provisions) (United Kingdom and Gibraltar) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1310), reg. 1, Sch. 2 para. 1(3) (as amended by S.I. 2019/1389, regs. 1, 2(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 rule 5(2A) Table inserted (31.12.2020) by Parliamentary Constituencies Act 2020 (c. 25), Sch. paras. 4(3)(4) (with s. 13(2))"
    }
  ],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:54:00.628020+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."
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