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The State shall be divided into House of Assembly electoral districts in accordance with the last effective electoral redistribution.
Where the Commission has published an order dividing the State into
House of Assembly electoral districts, and—
the order has become operative; and
the order has not been superseded by a subsequent operative order of the Commission, the State shall, as from the day on which a general election of members of the House of Assembly is next held be divided into the appropriate number of
House of Assembly electoral districts described in the order.
An order of the Commission becomes operative for the purposes of this section upon the expiration of the prescribed period from the date of publication of the order.
Each electoral district shall return one member of the House of
Assembly.
In this section—
the appropriate number means a number equal to the number of members of the House of Assembly from time to time prescribed by section 27 of this Act;
the Commission means the Electoral Districts
Boundaries Commission established under
Part
5 of this Act;
the last effective electoral redistribution means the division of the State into House of Assembly electoral districts that last took effect under subsection (2);
the prescribed period, in relation to an order of the Commission, means—
where no appeal has been made against the order—the period of three months from the date of publication of the order; or
where an appeal has been made against the order—the period extending from the date of publication of the order to the date falling three months after the day on which all appeals have been finally determined.
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