The Tayside and Fife Regions and Perth and Kinross District and Kirkcaldy District (Westfield) Boundaries Amendment Order 1987

• Citation: S.I. 1987/112
• Sections: 5

Section 1 Title and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Tayside and Fife Regions and Perth and Kinross District and Kirkcaldy District (Westfield) Boundaries Amendment Order 1987, and shall come into force on 1st April 1987.

Section 2 Interpretation

In the Schedule to this Order any reference to a boundary of a region is a reference to the boundary existing immediately before the commencement of this Order.

Section 3 Application of regulations

The Local Government Area Changes (Scotland) Regulations 1977 shall apply for the purpose of this Order to such extent as may be required to implement the area changes effected by article 4 of this Order.

Section 4 Area changes

That part of Perth and Kinross District in Tayside Region containing the opencastworkings of British Coal and the Lurgi Gas Plant of the British Gas Corporation at Westfield, being the area described in the Schedule to this Order and shown delineated and hatched on the map annexed and signed as relative to this Order, shall be transferred to Kirkcaldy District in Fife Region.

Section 5 Consequential changes of electoral arrangements

The area described in the Schedule to this Order (being the area transferred by article 4 of this Order)–

(a) shall cease to form part of Electoral Division 46 (Kinross) of Tayside Region and District Ward 29 (East Kinross) of Perth and Kinross District ; and

(b) shall form part of Electoral Division 19 (Kinglassie/Cardenden) of Fife Region and District Ward 37 (Kinglassie/Bowhill) of Kirkcaldy District .