{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998/schedule-1/paragraph-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998/schedule-1/paragraph-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1998/46",
  "legislation_title": "Scotland Act 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) If Boundaries Scotland intend to consider making a report under this Schedule—\n(a) it must inform the Scottish Ministers by notice in writing;\n(b) it must publish a copy of the notice in the Edinburgh Gazette.\n(2) If Boundaries Scotland has provisionally determined to make recommendations affecting a constituency it must publish in such manner as it thinks fit a notice stating—\n(a) the effect of the proposed recommendations and (except if the effect is that no alteration should be made in respect of the constituency) that a copy of the recommendations is open to inspection at a specified place in the constituency, and\n(b) that representations with respect to the proposed recommendations may be made to the Boundaries Scotland before the end of the period of one month starting the day after the notice is published.\n(3) Boundaries Scotland must take into account any representations made in accordance with the notice.\n(4) If Boundaries Scotland revise any proposed recommendations after publishing notice of them under sub-paragraph (2) it must comply again with sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) in relation to the revised recommendations as if no earlier notice had been published.\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 substituted (22.7.2004 with effect subject to transitional modifications set out in Sch. 2 of the amending Act until \"the appropriate date\", see s. 1(2)(3) of the amending Act) by Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Act 2004 (c. 13), s. 1(1)-(4), Sch. 1 (however, paras. 3-14 of Sch. 1 as so substituted or as so substituted and modified (as the case may be) have no effect until 30.6.2007, see s. 1(4))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 7(1) substituted (S.) (14.5.2021) by Scottish Elections (Reform) Act 2020 (asp 12), s. 35, sch. para. 3(2)(d); S.S.I. 2021/124, reg. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 1 para. 7(1)(a) substituted (S.) (14.5.2021) by Scottish Elections (Reform) Act 2020 (asp 12), s. 35, sch. para. 3(4)(a); S.S.I. 2021/124, reg. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 paras. 3-7 substituted (18.5.2017) by Scotland Act 2016 (c. 11), ss. 8(3), 72(4)(a); S.I. 2017/608, reg. 2(1)(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 1 para. 7(1)(b) substituted (S.) (14.5.2021) by Scottish Elections (Reform) Act 2020 (asp 12), s. 35, sch. para. 3(4)(a); S.S.I. 2021/124, reg. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 7(2) substituted (31.10.2012) by Scotland Act 2012 (c. 11), s. 44(5), Sch. 1 para. 4(2); S.I. 2012/2516, art. 2(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 7(2) substituted (S.) (14.5.2021) by Scottish Elections (Reform) Act 2020 (asp 12), s. 35, sch. para. 3(2)(d); S.S.I. 2021/124, reg. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 1 para. 7(2) substituted (S.) (14.5.2021) by Scottish Elections (Reform) Act 2020 (asp 12), s. 35, sch. para. 3(7)(a); S.S.I. 2021/124, reg. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 1 para. 7(2) substituted (S.) (14.5.2021) by Scottish Elections (Reform) Act 2020 (asp 12), s. 35, sch. para. 3(4)(a); S.S.I. 2021/124, reg. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 7(2) substituted (S.) (14.5.2021) by Scottish Elections (Reform) Act 2020 (asp 12), ss. 33, 35; S.S.I. 2021/124, reg. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 7(2)(b) substituted (S.) (14.5.2021) by Scottish Elections (Reform) Act 2020 (asp 12), s. 35, sch. para. 3(7)(b); S.S.I. 2021/124, reg. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 7(3) substituted (S.) (14.5.2021) by Scottish Elections (Reform) Act 2020 (asp 12), s. 35, sch. para. 3(2)(d); S.S.I. 2021/124, reg. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 7(4) substituted (S.) (14.5.2021) by Scottish Elections (Reform) Act 2020 (asp 12), s. 35, sch. para. 3(2)(d); S.S.I. 2021/124, reg. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 1 para. 7(4) substituted (S.) (14.5.2021) by Scottish Elections (Reform) Act 2020 (asp 12), s. 35, sch. para. 3(4)(a); S.S.I. 2021/124, reg. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F15",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 7(5)(6) omitted (31.10.2012) by virtue of Scotland Act 2012 (c. 11), s. 44(5), Sch. 1 para. 4(3); S.I. 2012/2516, art. 2(f); S.I. 2012/2516, art. 2(f)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/46/schedule/1/paragraph/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:33:08.185252+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."
}