House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1958
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1958 c. 26 |
| Year | 1958 |
House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act , 1958
(6 & 7 Eliz. 2) CHAPTER 26
An Act to amend the House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act, 1949.
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 Constitution of Boundary Commissions.
(1) The deputy chairman of each Boundary Commission under the House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act, 1949 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the principal Act’), shall be a judge who—
(a ) in the case of the Commission for England shall be a judge of the High Court appointed by the Lord Chancellor,
(b ) in the case of the Commission for Scotland shall be a judge of the Court of Session appointed by the Lord President of the Court of Session,
(c ) in the case of the Commission for Wales shall be a judge of the High Court appointed by the Lord Chancellor,
(d ) in the case of the Commission for Northern Ireland shall be a judge of the High Court in Northern Ireland appointed by the Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland,
and each deputy chairman shall hold his appointment for such term and on such conditions as may be determined before his appointment by the person appointing him.
(2) The officers of each Commission shall include two assessors who shall be—
(a ) in the case of the Commission for England, the Registrar General for England and Wales and the Director General of Ordnance Survey,
(b ) in the case of the Commission for Scotland, the Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages in Scotland and the Director General of Ordnance Survey,
(c ) in the case of the Commission for Wales, the Registrar General for England and Wales and the Director General of Ordnance Survey,
(d ) in the case of the Commission for Northern Ireland the Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages for Northern Ireland and the Commissioner of Valuation for Northern Ireland,
and those persons shall cease to be members of the Commissions.
2 Boundary Commissions' reports.
(1) After the coming into force of this Act a Boundary Commission's report under subsection (1) of section two of the principal Act shall be submitted not less than ten or more than fifteen years from the date of the submission of the Commission's last report under that subsection; and subsection (2) of that section (which in general requires reports to be made not less than three or more than seven years from the date of the submission of the Commission's last report) shall cease to have effect.
(2) It shall not be the duty of a Boundary Commission, in discharging their functions under the said section two, to aim at giving full effect in all circumstances to the rules set out in the Second Schedule to the principal Act, but they shall take account, so far as they reasonably can, of the inconveniences attendant on alterations of constituencies other than alterations made for the purposes of rule 4 of those rules, and of any local ties which would be broken by such alterations; and references in that section to giving effect to those rules shall be construed accordingly.
3 Electoral quotas.
3. In the application of rule 5 of the rules set out in the Second Schedule to the principal Act (under which the electorate of a constituency is to be brought as near the electoral quota as is practicable having regard to the other rules in that Schedule) to a constituency in any of the several parts of...
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