Statutory Instrument 1992 No. 3307 (S.280)

The Orkney Islands Area (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1992

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1992 No. 3307 (S.280)

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, SCOTLAND

The Orkney Islands Area (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1992

Whereas under section 17(1) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973^[1] the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland on 19 March 1992 submitted to the Secretary of State a report on a review together with their proposals for a change of the electoral arrangements for the Orkney Islands Area;

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:

Citation and commencement
    1.—(1)  This Order may be cited as the Orkney Islands Area (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1992.

    (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.

Interpretation
    2.    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, 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 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.

Change of electoral arrangements
    3.    The existing electoral divisions of the Orkney Islands Area shall be abolished and the said Area shall be divided into twenty-eight electoral divisions having the names, contents and boundaries set forth in the Schedule to this Order.

    4.    The boundaries of the electoral divisions constituted by this Order shall be defined and mered by Ordnance Survey.

Revocation
    5.    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 Orkney Islands Area (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1977^[2] is hereby revoked. Ian Lang One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State St Andrew's House, Edinburgh 13th December 1992

[1] 1973 c. 65. back

[2] S.I. 1977/1697 back

Explanatory Note