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Article 2 Interpretation

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

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.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1

These Maps are no longer published by Ordnance Survey; but copies of them can be obtained by post, upon payment of a charge, from Ordnance Survey as specified in the Explanatory Note.