Boundary Commissions Act 1992
| Year | 1992 |
Boundary Commissions Act1992
1992 CHAPTER 55
An Act to make further provision with respect to the membership of the Boundary Commissions, the timing of their reports and the local government boundaries of which account is to be taken in their reports.
[12th November 1992]
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Remuneration of members of Boundary Commissions.
(1) For the purpose of enabling remuneration to be paid to members of the Boundary Commissions, in the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986 (in this Act referred to as ‘the 1986 Act’) Schedule 1 (which provides for the constitution of, and other matters relating to, the Boundary Commissions) shall be amended in accordance with this section.
(2) After paragraph 4 (terms and conditions of appointment of members) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—
(4A)‘4A. In the case of a member of a Commission other than the chairman or deputy chairman, the conditions referred to in paragraph 4 above may include such provisions with respect to remuneration as the Secretary of State may determine with the approval of the Treasury.’
(3) In the case of a member of a Boundary Commission appointed before the passing of this Act, the power to make a determination under paragraph 4A (as set out in subsection (2) above) may be exercised at any time after the passing of this Act.
(4) In paragraph 8 (expenses of the Commissions) for the words from ‘including’ to ‘assistant Commissioners’ there shall be substituted ‘including the remuneration and travelling and other expenses of the members, assistant Commissioners’.
2 Time limits for submission of reports.
(1) This section has effect with respect to reports of the Boundary Commissions under subsection (1) of section 3 of the 1986 Act (in this section referred to as ‘mandatory reports’).
(2) The first mandatory report of each Boundary Commission which falls to be made after the passing of this Act shall be submitted to the Secretary of State not later than 31st December 1994, instead of fifteen years from the date of the submission of the Commission's last mandatory report.
(3) Except as respects a report to which subsection (2) above applies, subsection (2) of section 3 of the 1986 Act shall have effect with the substitution for the words ‘not less than ten or more than fifteen...
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