This Order may be cited as the European Parliament (Representation) Act 2003 (Commencement No 2) Order 2003.
Date made: 1 June 2003: (no specific commencement provision).
This Order may be cited as the European Parliament (Representation) Act 2003 (Commencement No 2) Order 2003.
Date made: 1 June 2003: (no specific commencement provision).
The following provisions of the European Parliament (Representation) Act 2003 shall come into force in Gibraltar on 2nd June 2003:
(a) sections 9, 10, 26 and 27; and
(b) section 28(2) so far as it relates to those provisions.
Date made: 1 June 2003: (no specific commencement provision).
Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor
Yvette Cooper
Parliamentary Secretary
Lord Chancellor's Department
1st June 2003
This Order brings into force in Gibraltar on 2nd June 2003 the provisions of the European Parliament (Representation) Act 2003 relating to the requirement for the Electoral Commission to make a recommendation to the Lord Chancellor as to which of the existing electoral regions in England and Wales should be combined with Gibraltar for the purposes of European Parliamentary elections taking place after 1st April 2004. The same provisions came into force in the United Kingdom on Royal Assent of that Act.