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 (b) before the end of each subsequent period of 20 sitting days beginning with the first sitting day after the previous statement was so laid, until the draft of an Order in Council is submitted under subsection (1).

(4B) A draft of an Order in Council submitted under subsection (1)—

(a) may give effect to recommendations in the reports with modifications only if that is required under section 4A, and

(b) may make provision for any matters which appear to the Secretary of State or, as the case may be, the Minister for the Cabinet Office to be incidental to, or consequential on—

(i) the recommendations in the reports, or

(ii) those recommendations together with the modifications that the draft is required to give effect to under section 4A.”

(3) In subsection (7) (validity of Order in Council not to be called in question), omit the words from “and” to “Parliament”.

(4) After subsection (7) insert—

“(7A) In this section, “sitting day” means a day on which both Houses of Parliament sit; and for that purpose a day is only a day on which a House sits if the House begins to sit on that day.”

3 Modifications of recommendations in reports

After section 4 of the 1986 Act insert—

“4A Modifications of recommendations in reports

(1) Subsection (2) applies where—

(a) a report of a Boundary Commission has been submitted to the Speaker of the House of Commons under section 3(1),

(b) it is a report under section 3(1)(a) (report with recommendations), and

(c) no draft of an Order in Council has yet been submitted to Her Majesty in Council under section 4(1) in relation to the report.

(2) The Commission in question may submit to the Speaker a statement (“a statement of modifications”) specifying—

(a) the modifications which they consider should be made to the recommendations in the report in order to correct any error in those recommendations, and

(b) their reasons for those modifications.

(3) On submitting a statement of modifications to the Speaker under subsection (2), the Commission must send a copy of it to the Secretary of State or the Minister for the Cabinet Office.

(4) On receiving a statement of modifications under subsection (2), the Speaker must lay it before Parliament.

(5) As soon as reasonably practicable after a statement of modifications has been laid under subsection (4), the Boundary Commission which submitted the statement must publish it in such manner as they think fit.