# The European Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) (Miscellaneous Changes) Order 1989

S.I. 1989/494 · made 15 March 1989

This Order gives effect without modification to the recommendations contained in the supplementary report of the Boundary Commission for Scotland dated 5th January 1989. The report contains proposals for changes to the areas comprised in the European Parliamentary constituencies of Mid Scotland and Fife, Lothians, South of Scotland, Strathclyde East, Strathclyde West, and Glasgow where changes to the boundaries of parliamentary constituencies have resulted in inconsistencies between those boundaries and the boundaries of European Parliamentary constituencies. Article 2 of, and the Schedule to, this Order set out the altered constituencies.

Made under: European Assembly Elections Act 1978 (Repealed)

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## Introductory text

REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE
REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS
Made 15th March 1989
Coming into force
in accordance with article 1(2)
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 15th day of March 1989
Present,
The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Whereas in pursuance of paragraph 3 of Schedule 2 to the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1978 the Boundary Commission for Scotland have submitted to the Secretary of State a supplementary report dated 5th January 1989 with respect to the areas comprised in certain European Parliamentary constituencies in Scotland and showing the European Parliamentary constituencies into which they recommend that the areas should be divided, in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 9 of the said Schedule 2:
And whereas the Secretary of State has laid that report before Parliament together with the draft of this Order in Council to give effect to the recommendations contained in the report and each House of Parliament has by resolution approved the said draft:
Now, therefore, Her Majesty, in pursuance of paragraph 4B of Schedule 2 to the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1978 , is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—

## 1 

(1) This Order may be cited as the European Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) (Miscellaneous Changes) Order 1989.
(2) Subject to paragraph 8(1) of Schedule 2 to the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1978 , this Order shall come into force on the fourteenth day after the day on which it is made.

## 2 

For the six European Parliamentary constituencies of Mid Scotland and Fife, Lothians, South of Scotland, Strathclyde East, Strathclyde West and Glasgow, as constituted by the European Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) Order 1984 (and described by reference to the parliamentary constituencies referred to in that Order), there shall be substituted the six European Parliamentary constituencies named on the left-hand side of the Schedule to this Order and comprising the parliamentary constituencies which are set out on the right-hand side and which are constituted—
(a) in the case of the Stirling, Edinburgh South, Ayr, Cunninghame South, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Hamilton and Dumbarton constituencies, by the Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) (Miscellaneous Changes) Order 1987 ;
(b) in the case of the Clackmannan, Falkirk East, Central Fife, Dunfermline East, Dunfermline West, North East Fife, Perth and Kinross, Edinburgh East, Midlothian, Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Clydesdale, Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, East Lothian, East Kilbride, Monklands East, Clydebank and Milngavie, Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Glasgow Cathcart, Glasgow Garscadden and Glasgow Maryhill constituencies, by the Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) (Miscellaneous Changes) Order 1988 ; and
(c) in the case of the remaining constituencies by the Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) Order 1983 .

## Signature

G I de Deney
Clerk of the Privy Council

## Schedule: NAMES AND AREAS OF ALTERED EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES IN SCOTLAND

## Mid Scotland and Fife

Clackmannan
Falkirk East
Falkirk West
Stirling
Central Fife
Dunfermline East
Dunfermline West
Kirkcaldy
North East Fife
Perth and Kinross
Lothians

## South of Scotland

Ayr
Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley
Clydesdale
Cunninghame South
Dumfries
Galloway and Upper Nithsdale
East Lothian
Roxburgh and Berwickshire
Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale
Strathclyde East

## Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order gives effect without modification to the recommendations contained in the supplementary report of the Boundary Commission for Scotland dated 5th January 1989. The report contains proposals for changes to the areas comprised in the European Parliamentary constituencies of Mid Scotland and Fife, Lothians, South of Scotland, Strathclyde East, Strathclyde West, and Glasgow where changes to the boundaries of parliamentary constituencies have resulted in inconsistencies between those boundaries and the boundaries of European Parliamentary constituencies. Article 2 of, and the Schedule to, this Order set out the altered constituencies.
By virtue of the provision referred to in article 1(2), the altered constituencies will only have effect from the next European Parliamentary general election.

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