Statutory Instrument 1996 No. 1926 (S.155)

The European Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) Order 1996

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1996 No. 1926 (S.155)

REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS

The European Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) Order 1996

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 23rd day of July 1996

Present,

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Whereas in pursuance of paragraph 1 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 6th June 1996 showing the European Parliamentary constituencies into which they recommend, in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 1 to that Act and Part II of Schedule 2 to that Act, that Scotland should be divided:

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(5) 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) Order 1996.

    (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.    Scotland shall be divided into the eight European Parliamentary constituencies named in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order and each such constituency shall consist of the parliamentary constituencies specified opposite thereto in column 2 of that Schedule, being the parliamentary constituencies described in the Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) Order 1995^[4].

    3.    The European Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) Order 1984^[5] and the European Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) (Miscellaneous Changes) Order 1992^[6] are revoked.

N. H. Nicholls

Clerk of the Privy Council

[1] 1978 c. 10: paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 was substituted by section 1(1) of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1981 (c. 8) and amended by paragraph 5(2) 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 and by section 3(1) and (3) of the European Communities (Amendment) Act 1986. back

[4] S.I. 1995/1037. back

[5] S.I. 1984/548. back

[6] S.I. 1992/236. back

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