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The Dumfries and Galloway Region (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1993

S.I. 1993/992 · Made 30 March 1993

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LOCAL GOVERNMENT, SCOTLAND

Made 30th March 1993

Coming into force in accordance with Article 1(2)

Whereas under section 17(1) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973(f1) the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland on 2 July 1992 submitted to the Secretary of State a report on a review together with its proposals for a change of the electoral arrangements for the Dumfries and Galloway Region;

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 17(2) and 233 of the said Act and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, the Secretary of State hereby makes the following Order:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1973 c. 65.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Interpretation
  3. 3Change of electoral arrangements
  4. 4Change of electoral arrangements
  5. 5Revocation
  6. Signature
  7. Schedule DESCRIPTIONS OF BOUNDARIES OF ELECTORAL DIVISIONS FOR THE DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY REGION
  8. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

(1)

This Order may be cited as the Dumfries and Galloway Region (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1993.

(2)

This Order shall come into force on 5th May 1994:

Provided that for the purpose of all proceedings preliminary or relating to an election to be held on or after that day the said Order shall come into force on 10th October 1993.

2Interpretation

In the Schedule to this Order–

(a)

a reference to–

(i)

an electoral division shall be construed as a reference to that electoral division as constituted in this Order;

(ii)

a road, footpath, railway line, river, burn or canal shall, where the context so admits, be construed as the centre line of the feature concerned; and

(iii)

the boundary or boundaries of a parish is to a line corresponding as nearly as may be to the line of the boundary or boundaries of the parish concerned as already published on Ordnance Survey maps;

(b)

the expedient of defining a line beyond Mean Low Water Springs has been adopted to apportion islands to the appropriate electoral division; and

(c)

the following abbreviations are used:–

  • “ED” for Electoral Division; and

  • “grid reference” for National Grid Reference as published on Ordnance Survey Maps.

3Change of electoral arrangements

The existing electoral divisions of the Dumfries and Galloway Region shall be abolished and the said Region shall be divided into thirty-five electoral divisions having the names, contents and boundaries set forth in the Schedule to this Order.

4Change of electoral arrangements

The boundaries of the electoral divisions constituted by this Order shall be defined and mered by Ordnance Survey.

5Revocation

Without prejudice to its continuing in effect for the purposes of defining the electoral divisions prior to the coming into force of this Order, the Dumfries and Galloway Region (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1977(f1) is hereby revoked.

Signature

Ian Lang

One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

30th March 1993

DESCRIPTIONS OF BOUNDARIES OF ELECTORAL DIVISIONS FOR THE DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY REGION

Commencing on the southern boundary of Dumfries and Galloway Region and Wigtown District at the mouth of the River Cree; then generally northwestward along the River Cree to a point opposite Goods Lane; then generally westward along Goods Lane, Dashwood Square, Princes Street and St Couan’s Road to the unclassified road leading northward past South Barnkirk and North Barnkirk; then northward along the said road and its prolongation in a straight line, crossing the A714 road, to the River Cree; then generally northwestward and westward along the River Cree to and generally northward and eastward along the northern boundary of Dumfries and Galloway Region and Wigtown District to the eastern boundary of Wigtown District; then generally southward along the said district boundary to and northwestward along the southern boundary of Dumfries and Galloway Region and Wigtown District to the point of commencement.

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order gives effect to proposals made by the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland for a change to electoral arrangements for the Dumfries and Galloway Region (the Region) as described in the Schedule to the Dumfries and Galloway Region (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1977 (“the 1977 Order”).

The effect of the proposals is to divide the Region into 35 electoral divisions as described in the Schedule to this Order.

The 1977 Order is revoked by this Order.