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The Dumfries and Galloway Region (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1993

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1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Dumfries and Galloway 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 said Order shall come into force on 10th October 1993.

Interpretation

2.  In the Schedule to this Order–

(a)a reference to–

(i)an electoral division shall 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 already published on Ordnance Survey maps;

(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; and

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

Change of electoral arrangements

3.  The existing electoral divisions of the Dumfries and Galloway Region shall be abolished and the said Region shall be divided into thirty-five electoral divisions having the names, contents and boundaries set forth in the Schedule to this Order.

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

Revocation

5.  Without prejudice to its continuing in effect for the purposes of defining the electoral divisions prior to the coming into force of this Order, the Dumfries and Galloway Region (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1977((1)) is hereby revoked.

Ian Lang

One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

30th March 1993

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