The Strathclyde Region (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1993

• Citation: S.I. 1993/2439
• Sections: 5

Section 1 Citation and commencement

(1) This Order may be cited as the Strathclyde Region (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1993.

(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.

Section 2 Interpretation

In the Schedule to this Order–

(a) a reference to–

(i) an electoral division should 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 published on the monochrome edition of the 1:50,000 First Series Ordnance Survey Maps which were published between 1976 and 1984 ;

(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:–

“ED” for Electoral Division;

“ MLWS ” for the shoreline at Mean Low Water Springs; and

“grid reference” for National Grid Reference as published on Ordnance Survey Maps.

Section 3 Change of electoral arrangements

The existing electoral divisions of the Strathclyde Region shall be abolished and the said Region shall be divided into one hundred and four electoral divisions having the names, contents and boundaries set forth in the Schedule to this Order.

Section 4 Change of electoral arrangements

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

Section 5 Revocations

Without prejudice to their continuing in effect for the purposes of defining the electoral divisions prior to the coming into force of this Order, the Strathclyde Region (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1979 and Articles 2 of the Strathclyde Region (Electoral Arrangements) Amendment Order 1979 and of the Strathclyde Region and Clydesdale District (Electoral Arrangements) Amendment Order 1984 and Article 3 of the Central and Strathclyde Regions and Stirling District (Croftamie) (Electoral Arrangements) Amendment Order 1983 are hereby revoked.