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The Highland Region (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1993

S.I. 1993/1094 · Made 15 April 1993

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LOCAL GOVERNMENT, SCOTLAND

Made 15th April 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 22nd September 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 Highland 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 DESCRIPTION OF BOUNDARIES OF ELECTORAL DIVISIONS FOR THE HIGHLAND REGION
  8. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

(1)

This Order may be cited as the Highland 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 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, track, railway line, pier, firth, channel, 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:–

  • “MLWS” for the shoreline at Mean Low Water Springs;

  • “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 Highland Region shall be abolished and the said Region shall be divided into fifty-four 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 Highland Region (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1978(f1) is hereby revoked.

Signature

Ian Lang

One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

15th April 1993

DESCRIPTION OF BOUNDARIES OF ELECTORAL DIVISIONS FOR THE HIGHLAND REGION

Commencing at grid reference ND 1073 6926 at MLWS on the northern boundary of Highland Region and Caithness District at the mouth of the Burnside Burn, west of Thurso; then generally southeastward along the said regional and district boundary to a point on that boundary due north of the steps at the western end of the Esplanade; then southward to and southwestward up to said steps to the northern end of Olrig Street; then southeastward along Olrig Street to a point in the said street opposite the boundary between Nos 20 and 22, Olrig Street; then southwestward following the property boundary to Cowie Lane and continuing southwestward along the rear curtilage of properties on the west side of Duncan Street to Davidson’s Lane; then northwestward along Davidson’s Lane to Sweyn Road; then southwestward along Sweyn Road to its junction with St Magnus Road; then northwestward along St Magnus Road to its junction with St Olaf Road; then generally southwestward along St Olaf Road to its junction with Castlegreen Road; then generally southeastward along Castlegreen Road to where the said road meets Princes Street and Lovers Lane immediately opposite the Thurso Railway Station; then generally southward through the station and along the railway line to a point in line with field boundaries leading northwestward to Dunbar Hospital; then northwestward along the said field boundaries to Ormlie Road; then southwestward along the said road to a point opposite the southern curtilage of the Dunbar Hospital; then northwestward and northeastward along the southern and western curtilage of the said hospital to where it meets field boundaries; then northwestward and northeastward along the said line of field boundaries to the Wolf Burn; then northward, northwestward and northeastward along the Wolf Burn and the Burnside Burn to where it meets the sea; then generally southeastward 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 Highland Region (the Region) as described in the Schedule to the Highland Region (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1978 (the 1978 Order).

The effect of the proposals is to divide the Region into 54 electoral divisions as described in the Schedule to this Order.

The 1978 Order is revoked by this Order.