Section 7: Protected constituencies
Subsection (2) of section 7 amends rule 6(2) of Schedule 2 to the 1986 Act to add a constituency named Ynys Môn, comprising the area of the Isle of Anglesey County Council, to the current list of protected constituencies.
	Subsection (3) of section 7 makes a consequential change to rule 8 of Schedule 2 to the 1986 Act which sets out the method (referred to in rule 3 of Schedule 2) by which the Boundary Commissions allocate constituencies across the four nations of the United Kingdom at the start of a boundary review. Under rule 8(5), the allocation process does not apply to protected constituencies, and subsection (3) amends rule 8(5) to provide that the electorate of the Ynys Môn constituency is accordingly excluded from the calculation for the allocation of constituencies.
	Subsection (4) of section 7 amends rule 9(7) of Schedule 2 to provide that the reference in new rule 6(2)(c) to the area of the Isle of Anglesey County Council is to that area as it existed on the coming into force of the Schedule to the Act.