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Statutory Instrument 1995 No. 1037 (S.90)

The Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) Order 1995

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1995 No. 1037 (S.90)

REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS

The Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) Order 1995

Made11th April 1995
Coming into force in accordance with Article 1(2)

At the Court at Windsor Castle the 11th day of April 1995

Present,

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council

    Whereas in pursuance of section 3(1) of the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986[1], the Boundary Commission for Scotland have submitted to the Secretary of State a report dated 15th December 1994 showing the constituencies into which they recommend, in accordance with 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, without modifications, 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 section 4 of the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986 and of all other powers enabling Her in that behalf, 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 Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) Order 1995.

        (2)  Subject to section 4(6) of the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986, this Order shall come into force on the fourteenth day after the day on which it is made.

        (3)  In this Order—
       (a) any reference to an electoral division in a district is a reference to an electoral division of the region in which that district is situated; and
       (b) any reference to a region, islands area, district or electoral division is a reference to the region, islands area, district or, as the case may be, electoral division as they existed on 15th December 1994.

        2.    Scotland shall be divided into the constituencies—
       (a) which are named in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order;
       (b) which comprise the areas which are set out in column 2 of that Schedule opposite the name of the constituency; and
       (c) which are designated as being either county constituencies or burgh constituencies according to the heading in column 1 of that Schedule under which the name of the constituency is listed.
        3.    Each electoral registration officer for the constituencies referred to in Article 2 above shall make such re-arrangement or adaptation of the registers of parliamentary electors as may be necessary to give effect to this Order.
        4.    The following Orders are revoked, namely:—
       (a) the Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) Order 1983[2];
       (b) the Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) (Miscellaneous Changes) Order 1987[3];
       (c) the Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) (Miscellaneous Changes) Order 1988[4]; and
       (d) the Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) (Miscellaneous Changes) Order 1990[5].



N H Nicholls

Clerk of the Privy Council





Notes:

[1] 1986 c. 56.

[2] S.I. 1983/422; amended by S.I. 1987/469, S.I. 1988/1992 and S.I. 1990/2298.

[3] S.I. 1987/469.

[4] S.I. 1988/1992.

[5] S.I. 1990/2298.

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