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Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill

94A: Clause 12, line 7, leave out from ““one”” to end and insert— ““hundred or more. (3) A Boundary Commission is not obliged to cause a local inquiry to be held under subsection (2). They may only do so if— (a) the objection raises substantive issues that might benefit from further comment or representation from other interested parties or individuals; and (b) any counter proposals it makes are prima facie within the stipulations of the Rules for the distribution of seats contained in Schedule 2 to the 1986 Act. (4) A local inquiry held under subsection (2) must be completed within six months of the close of the consultation period referred to in subsection (1) above. (5) Once a local inquiry has been held under the terms of subsection (2) above in any given locality, no further inquiries shall be held in that locality under the terms of this Act into the same objection. (6) In subsection (2) above, ““interested authority”” and ““elector”” respectively mean, in relation to any recommendation, a local authority whose area is wholly or partly comprised in the constituencies affected by the recommendation, and a parliamentary elector for any of those constituencies.””””