1 Citation, commencement and interpretation
1 This Order may be cited as the Crofting (Designation of Areas) (Scotland) Order 2010 and comes into force on the day after the day on which it is made.
2 In this Order “local government area” means a local government area established by section 1(2) and (4) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994.
1994 c.39.

2 Designation of Areas
The following areas are designated for the purposes of section 3A(1)(b) of the Crofters (Scotland) Act 1993—
(a) that part of the local government area of Highland that is outwith the crofting counties;
Section 61(1) of the 1993 Act defines “crofting counties” as comprising the former counties of Argyll, Caithness, Inverness, Orkney, Ross and Cromarty, Sutherland and Zetland. The local government area of Highland includes parts of the former counties of Argyll, Caithness, Inverness, Ross and Cromarty and Sutherland.
(b) the local government area of Moray;
(c) in the local government area of Argyll and Bute, the parishes of Kingarth, North Bute and Rothesay; and
(d) in the local government area of North Ayrshire, the islands of Arran (including Holy Island and Pladda), Great Cumbrae and Little Cumbrae.
R CUNNINGHAM Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh 3rd February 2010