Section 8: Registers used to determine the "electorate" in relation to the 2023 reports
Section 8 amends the definition of "electorate" in rule 9(2) of Schedule 2 to the 1986 Act and inserts a new paragraph (2A) into rule 9 of Schedule 2 to the 1986 Act.
	New paragraph (2A) provides that for the purposes of the report that each Boundary Commission is required to submit before 1 July 2023, the "electorate" of the United Kingdom, or of a part of the United Kingdom or a constituency, is the total number of persons whose names appear on a register of parliamentary electors (maintained under section 9 of the Representation of the People Act 1983) in respect of addresses in the United Kingdom, or in that part or that constituency, as that register has effect on 2 March 2020.
	This means that the next boundary review due to report before 1 July 2023 will be based on the number of registered electors on 2 March 2020, instead of the number of registered electors at 1 December 2020. For all subsequent boundary reviews, reviews will be based on the number of electors on the "review date" (as defined under rule 9(5) of Schedule 2 to the 1986 Act as amended by section 9 of the Act).