The Fife and Tayside Regions and North East Fife and Perth and Kinross Districts (Butterwell/Burnside) Boundaries Amendment Order 1990

Title and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Fife and Tayside Regions and North East Fife and Perth and Kinross Districts (Butterwell/Burnside) Boundaries Amendment Order 1990, and shall come into force on 15th February 1990.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order–

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

“boundary map 1” means the map prepared by the Scottish Office marked “The Fife and Tayside Regions and North East Fife and Perth and Kinross Districts (Butterwell/Burnside) Boundaries Amendment Order 1990 Map 1” and deposited in accordance with regulation 3 of the 1977 Regulations;

“boundary map 2” means the map prepared by the Scottish Office marked “The Fife and Tayside Regions and North East Fife and Perth and Kinross Districts (Butterwell/Burnside) Boundaries Amendment Order 1990 Map 2” and deposited in accordance with regulation 3 of the 1977 Regulations;

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

Application of the 1977 Regulations

3.  Save insofar as they can have no application in relation to the area changes effected by this Order, the provisions of the 1977 Regulations shall apply in relation thereto for the purposes of, or in consequence of, this Order.

Area changes

4.—(1) Part of North East Fife District in Fife Region, being the area A described in Part I of the Schedule to this Order and shown delineated, hatched and marked “Area A” on boundary map 1, shall be transferred to Perth and Kinross District in Tayside Region.

(2) Those parts of Perth and Kinross District in Tayside Region, being –

(a) the area B at Butterwell described in Part II of the Schedule to this Order and shown delineated, hatched and marked “Area B” on boundary map 1, and

(b) the area C at Burnside described in Part II of the Schedule to this Order and shown delineated, hatched and marked “Area C” on boundary map 2,

shall be transferred to North East Fife District in Fife Region.

Consequential changes of electoral arrangements

5.—(1) Area A described in Part I of the Schedule to this Order (being the area transferred by article 4(1) of this Order) —

(a) shall cease to form part of electoral division 22 of Fife Region(2) and of ward 5 (Auchtermuchty/Strathmiglo) of North East Fife District(3); and

(b) shall form part of electoral division 46 (Kinross) of Tayside Region(4) and of ward 28 (West Kinross) of Perth and Kinross District(5).

(2) Each of areas B and C described in Part II of the Schedule to this Order (being the areas transferred by article 4(2) of this Order)–

(a) shall cease to form part of electoral division 46 (Kinross) of Tayside Region and of ward 28 (West Kinross) of Perth and Kinross District; and

(b) shall form part of electoral division 22 of Fife Region and of ward 5 (Auchtermuchty/Strathmiglo) of North East Fife District.

James Douglas-Hamilton

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office

St. Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

14th January 1990