Statutory Instrument 1992 No. 236

The European Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) (Miscellaneous Changes) Order 1992

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1992 No. 236

REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS

The European Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) (Miscellaneous Changes) Order 1992

At the Court of Buckingham Palace, the 11th day of February 1992

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^[1] the Boundary Commission for Scotland have submitted to the Secretary of State a supplementary report dated 4th July 1991 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^[2], 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 1992.

    (2)  Subject to paragraph 8(1) of Schedule 2 to the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1978^[3], 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 Strathclyde West, Strathclyde East, Glasgow, Lothians, South of Scotland and Mid Scotland and Fife, as constituted by the European Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) (Miscellaneous Changes) Order 1989^[4] (and described by reference to the parliamentary constituencies referred to in that Order), and for the European Parliamentary Constitutency of North East Scotland as consti tuted by the European Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) Order 1984^[5] (and described by reference to the parliamentary constituencies referred to in that Order), there shall be substituted the seven 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 Cunninghame North, Eastwood, Strathkelvin and Bearsden, East Kilbride, Glasgow Rutherglen, Motherwell North, Glasgow Cathcart, Glasgow Springburn, Edinburgh East, Linlithgow, Midlothian, East Lothian, Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale, North East Fife, Perth and Kinross, Stirling and North Tayside constituencies, by the Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) (Miscel laneous Changes) Order 1990^[6];
 (b) in the case of the Clydebank and Milngavie, Monklands East, Glasgow Garscadden, Glasgow Maryhill, Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Clydesdale, Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, Central Fife, Clackmannan, Dunfermline East, Dunfermline West and Falkirk East constituencies, by the Parliamentary Constituencies (Scot land) (Miscellaneous Changes) Order 1988^[7];
 (c) in the case of the Edinburgh South, Ayr, Cunninghame South, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Hamilton and Dumbarton constituencies, by the Parliamentary Con stituencies (Scotland) (Miscellaneous Changes) Order 1987^[8]; and
 (d) in the case of the remaining constituencies by the Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) Order 1983^[9].

    3.—(1)  Subject to paragraph (2) below, the European Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) (Miscellaneous Changes) Order 1989 is revoked.

    (2)  The revocation shall not affect any election earlier than the first general election of representatives to the European Parliament held after this Order comes into force.

G.I. de Deney

Clerk of the Privy Council

[1] 1978 c. 10; paragraph 3 of Schedule 2 was substituted by section 1(3) of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1981 (c. 8) and amended by paragraph 5(3) of Schedule 3 to the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986 (c. 56); the words "European Parliamentary" were substituted for the words "European Assembly" in the provisions concerning the citation of the 1978 and 1981 Acts by section 3(1)(b) and (2)(b) of the European Communities (Amendment) Act 1986 (c. 58) on the coming into force of the Single European Act on 1st July 1987. back

[2] Paragraph 4B was inserted by paragraph 5(4) of Schedule 3 to the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986. back

[3] Paragraph 8(1) was amended by paragraph 5(9) of Schedule 3 to the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986. back

[4] S.I. 1989/494. back

[5] S.I. 1984/548; the citation of this Order has been amended by section 3(1)(b) and (2)(b) of the European Communities (Amendment) Act 1986. back

[6] S.I. 1990/2298. back

[7] S.I. 1988/1992. back

[8] S.I. 1987/469. back

[9] S.I. 1983/422. back

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