ELECTORAL BOUNDARIES COMMISSION ACT 1982 - SECT 9 Factors to be taken into account by Commissioners
ELECTORAL BOUNDARIES COMMISSION ACT 1982 - SECT 9
Factors to be taken into account by CommissionersS. 9(1) amended by No. 2/2003 s. 45(5).
(1) In making any division of electors and in determining the number of electors to be allocated to a region or district the Commissioners shall give due consideration to—
(a) area and physical features of terrain;
(b) means of travel, traffic arteries, and communications and any special difficulties in connection therewith;
(c) community or diversity of interests; and
(d) the likelihood of changes in the number of electors in the various localities.
S. 9(2) amended by No. 2/2003 s. 45(6).
(2) For the purposes of this Act the Commission may take electoral regions or electoral districts to be of approximately equal enrolment where the enrolment for each region or district does not vary by more than 10 per centum from the average enrolment of all regions or districts (as the case requires).