Article 1 Citation, commencement, extent and interpretation

(1)

This Order may be cited as the Returning Officers (Parliamentary Constituencies) (England and Wales) Order 2023.

(2)

This Order comes into force—

(a)

for the purposes of proceedings preliminary or relating to a parliamentary election to be held after the issue of a proclamation by His Majesty summoning a new Parliament, on 1st December 2023;

(b)

for all other purposes, on the issue of a proclamation by His Majesty summoning a new Parliament.

(3)

This Order extends to England and Wales.

(4)

References to constituencies in this Order are references to those constituencies in England or Wales constituted by an Order in Council made under section 4 of the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986^f1.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1986 c. 56. Section 4 was amended by paragraph 17 of the Schedule to the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 (c. 14), by section 2 of the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 2020 (c. 25) and by S.I. 2018/780, 2021/1265.