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Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Act 2004

Field	Value
short_title	Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Act 2004
type	Act
parliament	Parliament of the United Kingdom
long_title	An Act to replace Schedule 1 to the Scotland Act 1998 making new provision in relation to the constituencies for the Scottish Parliament.
year	2004
statute_book_chapter	2004 c. 13
territorial_extent	Scotland
royal_assent	22 July 2004
amends	Scotland Act 1998
status	Current
original_text	http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/13/contents/enacted
revised_text	http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/13/contents

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The Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Act 2004 (c. 13) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which severed the link between Scottish Parliament constituencies and Scottish Westminster constituencies.

Background

Before the act, the Scotland Act 1998 had required that Scottish Parliament constituencies and the Scottish Westminster constituencies shared the same boundaries.

In the November 2003 Queen's speech, the United Kingdom Government committed to retaining all 129 MSPs.

Provisions

The act amended the Scotland Act 1998 to remove the link between Scottish Parliament boundaries and Scottish Westminster boundaries. The act allowed for the number of Scottish Westminster constituencies to be reduced to 59, while keeping the number of Scottish Parliament constituencies.

Reception

The legislation was criticised by Jimmy Hood, Labour MP for Clydesdale, as gerrymandering. Tory MP Peter Duncan described the legislation as "unnecessary".

References

The citation of this Act by this [[short title]] is authorised by [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/13/section/4 section 4] of this Act.
Mitchell, J. (2000-07-01). "New parliament, new politics in Scotland". Parliamentary Affairs.
(2003-12-11). "New boundary plans put forward". BBC News.
(2004-05-05). "MSPs keep their numbers up despite the Labour critics Constituencies bill clears Commons by 222 majority". The Herald.
(2004-05-04). "Commons approves keeping MSPs". BBC News.

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