The Parliamentary Constituencies (Northern Ireland) Order 2008

Made: 11th June 2008

Coming into force in accordance with article 1

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 11th day of June 2008Present,The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Accordingly, Her Majesty is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to make the following Order under section 4 of the 1986 Act:

Citation and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the Parliamentary Constituencies (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 and shall come into force on the fourteenth day after the day on which it is made [^f00002].

Parliamentary Constituencies in Northern Ireland

2

• (1) For all the constituencies in Northern Ireland there shall be substituted the constituencies which—

• (a) are named in the left-hand column of the Schedule to this Order;

• (b) are designated in that column as either county constituencies or borough constituencies; and

• (c) comprise the areas set out in the right-hand column of that Schedule.

• (2) The areas set out in the right-hand column of the Schedule to this Order are local government areas as they existed on 14th September 2007.

• (3) The Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland shall make such re-arrangement or adaptation of the register of parliamentary electors as may be necessary to give effect to this Order.

SCHEDULE — NAMES, DESIGNATION AND COMPOSITION OF CONSTITUENCIES IN NORTHERN IRELAND

Belfast North (borough constituency)

Signed

Judith Simpson — Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order gives effect, without modification, to the recommendations set out in the report of the Boundary Commission for Northern Ireland dated 14th September 2007. The report sets out proposals for parliamentary constituencies in Northern Ireland consequent on a review by the Commission of representation in the House of Commons of Northern Ireland.

Article 2 of, and the Schedule to, the Order give effect to those proposals. By virtue of section 4(6) of the Parliamentary Constituencies Act [1986 (c.56)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/56), the coming into force of the Order does not affect any parliamentary election until a proclamation is issued by Her Majesty summoning a new Parliament, or affect the constitution of the House of Commons until the dissolution of the Parliament then in being.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1986 c.56; section 3 has been amended by section 16 of, and Part 1 of Schedule 3 to, the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (c.41). However, these amendments have yet to be commenced.

[^f00002]: The effect of section 4(6) of the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986 is that the coming into force of this Order shall not affect any parliamentary election until a proclamation is issued by Her Majesty summoning a new Parliament and shall not affect the constitution of the House of Commons until the dissolution of the Parliament now in being.

Editorial notes

[^key-9f2e908386eabebc1b33a7de70f9a86f]: Art. 1 in force at 25.6.2008 in accordance with art. 1

[^key-e9477baf782a47a69210d39f45958156]: Art. 2 in force at 25.6.2008 in accordance with art. 1

[^key-4fc5577819e270707f2998b6583a61ec]: Sch. in force at 25.6.2008 in accordance with art. 1