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The Strathclyde Region (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1993

S.I. 1993/2439 · Made 7 October 1993

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LOCAL GOVERNMENT, SCOTLAND

Made 7th October 1993

Coming into force in accordance with Article 1(2)

Whereas under section 17(1) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973f1 the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland on 24th May 1993 submitted to the Secretary of State a report on a review together with its proposals for a change of the electoral arrangements for the Strathclyde Region;

Now, therefore, in exercise of 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. 5Revocations
  6. Signature
  7. Schedule DESCRIPTIONS OF BOUNDARIES OF ELECTORAL DIVISIONS FOR STRATHCLYDE REGION
  8. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

(1)

This Order may be cited as the Strathclyde 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 should 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 published on the monochrome edition of the 1:50,000 First Series Ordnance Survey Maps which were published between 1976 and 1984f1;

(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;

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

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

3Change of electoral arrangements

The existing electoral divisions of the Strathclyde Region shall be abolished and the said Region shall be divided into one hundred and 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.

5Revocations

Without prejudice to their continuing in effect for the purposes of defining the electoral divisions prior to the coming into force of this Order, the Strathclyde Region (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1979f1 and Articles 2 of the Strathclyde Region (Electoral Arrangements) Amendment Order 1979f2 and of the Strathclyde Region and Clydesdale District (Electoral Arrangements) Amendment Order 1984f3 and Article 3 of the Central and Strathclyde Regions and Stirling District (Croftamie) (Electoral Arrangements) Amendment Order 1983f4 are hereby revoked.

Signature

Fraser of Carmyllie

Minister of State, Scottish Office

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

7th October 1993

DESCRIPTIONS OF BOUNDARIES OF ELECTORAL DIVISIONS FOR STRATHCLYDE REGION

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 the electoral arrangements for the Strathclyde Region (the Region) as described in the Schedule to the Strathclyde Region (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1979 (the 1979 Order), as amended by the Strathclyde Region (Electoral Arrangements) Amendment Order 1979, the Central and Strathclyde Regions and Stirling District (Croftamie) (Electoral Arrangements) Amendment Order 1983 and the Strathclyde Region and Clydesdale District (Electoral Arrangements) Amendment Order 1984.

Copies of the Ordnance Survey Maps referred to in Article 2(a)(iii) are no longer published by them; but copies of them can be obtained by post, upon payment of a charge, from Ordnance Survey, Old Map Sales, Romsey Road, Southampton SO9 4DH or any Ordnance Survey Network Superplan Agent.

The effect of the proposals is to divide the Region into 104 electoral divisions as described in the Schedule to this Order.

The 1979 Order and the relevant articles of the said Amending Orders are revoked by this Order.