The Fife (Electoral Arrangements) Order 2006

Made18th October 2006

Coming into force3rd November 2006

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 17(2) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 19731 and giving effect to proposals submitted to them on 13th June 2006 by the Boundary Commission under section 17(1) of that Act regarding electoral arrangements for the area of Fife Council, hereby make the following Order:

Citation, commencement and application1

1

This Order may be cited as the Fife (Electoral Arrangements) Order 2006 and shall come into force on 3rd November 2006.

2

This Order shall apply only for the purposes of elections to be held after the date on which section 1 of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 20042 comes into force.

Interpretation2

In this Order–

a

a reference to an electoral ward is a reference to that electoral ward as constituted in this Order; and

b

“the deposited data” means the data recorded on the DVD-ROM–

i

entitled “Fife (Electoral Arrangements) 2006”; and

ii

deposited with the Scottish Ministers at their offices at Victoria Quay, Leith, Edinburgh EH6 6QQ.

Electoral arrangements3

1

The area of Fife Council shall be divided into 23 electoral wards.

2

The number and name of an electoral ward is as specified in columns 1 and 2 respectively of the Schedule to this Order.

3

The number of councillors to be returned for an electoral ward is as specified in the entry in column 3 of the Schedule to this Order corresponding to that electoral ward.

4

The boundaries of the electoral wards are as described by the deposited data.

TOM McCABEA member of the Scottish ExecutiveSt Andrew’s House,Edinburgh18th October 2006

SCHEDULEELECTORAL WARDS

Article 3

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Number of electoral ward	Name of electoral ward	Number of councillors to be returned
1	West Fife and Coastal Villages	4
2	Dunfermline North	3
3	Dunfermline Central	4
4	Dunfermline South	4
5	Rosyth	3
6	Inverkeithing and Dalgety Bay	4
7	The Lochs	3
8	Cowdenbeath	3
9	Lochgelly and Cardenden	3
10	Burntisland, Kinghorn and Western Kirkcaldy	3
11	Kirkcaldy North	3
12	Kirkcaldy Central	3
13	Kirkcaldy East	3
14	Glenrothes West and Kinglassie	4
15	Glenrothes North, Leslie and Markinch	4
16	Glenrothes Central and Thornton	3
17	Howe of Fife and Tay Coast	3
18	Tay Bridgehead	3
19	St Andrews	4
20	East Neuk and Landward	3
21	Cupar	3
22	Leven, Kennoway and Largo	4
23	Buckhaven, Methil and Wemyss Villages	4

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order gives effect to proposals made by the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland for the future electoral arrangements for the area of Fife Council. The area of Fife Council is divided into 23 electoral wards as described in the Schedule to the Order. The proposals follow on the review of the whole of Scotland undertaken by the Commission under section 4(1) of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004. The Order applies only for the purposes of elections held after the coming into force of section 1 of that Act.

The Order describes the boundaries of the new electoral wards by means of data stored on a DVD-ROM. Copies of the DVD-ROM are to be deposited with and maps of the boundaries of the electoral wards are available (in hard copy or on-line) from the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland and Fife Council.