The Aberdeen City Council and Aberdeenshire Council Boundaries (Blackburn) Amendment Order 2002

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Aberdeen City Council and Aberdeenshire Council Boundaries (Blackburn) Amendment Order 2002 and shall come into force on 1st June 2002.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order–

“the 1977 Regulations” means the Local Government Area Changes (Scotland) Regulations 1977(1); and

“boundary map” means the map prepared by the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland marked “The Aberdeen City Council and Aberdeenshire Council Boundaries (Blackburn) Amendment Order 2002 Map” and deposited in accordance with regulation 3 of the 1977 Regulations;

and, in the Schedule, any reference to an administrative boundary is a reference to a boundary existing immediately before the commencement of this Order.

Application of the 1977 Regulations

3.  The provisions of the 1977 Regulations shall apply in relation to the area change effected by this Order except insofar as they can have no application in relation to that change.

Area change

4.  That part of the area of Aberdeen City Council which is described in the Schedule and shown delineated and hatched on the boundary map, shall be transferred to the area of Aberdeenshire Council.

Consequential changes of electoral arrangements

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

(a) shall cease to form part of electoral ward 8 (Newhills) of the area of Aberdeen City Council(2); and

(b) shall form part of electoral ward 45 (Kinellar and Westhill North) of the area of Aberdeenshire Council(3).

PETER J PEACOCK

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

25th March 2002