Commentary on Sections Section 2: Current reviews
13.This section gives effect to the provisions in Schedule 3 concerning the current statutory review of Westminster constituencies and Scottish Parliament regions which is being carried out by the Boundary Commission for Scotland. The Boundary Commission are required to submit to the Secretary of State for Scotland, by December 2006, a report on Scottish Westminster constituencies. Under the Scotland Act before this Act, this report also had to include recommendations for consequential alterations to the regions for purposes of  Scottish Parliament elections. Those recommendations would not have been relevant following the decoupling of the Scottish Parliament constituencies and regions from the Westminster constituencies. Schedule 3 provides that any recommendation on these regional boundaries must be ignored.