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The European Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) Order 1996

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1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the European Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) Order 1996.

(2) Subject to paragraph 8(1) of Schedule 2 to the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1978(1), this Order shall come into force on the fourteenth day after the day on which it is made.

2.  Scotland shall be divided into the eight European Parliamentary constituencies named in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order and each such constituency shall consist of the parliamentary constituencies specified opposite thereto in column 2 of that Schedule, being the parliamentary constituencies described in the Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) Order 1995(2).

3.  The European Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) Order 1984(3) and the European Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) (Miscellaneous Changes) Order 1992(4) are revoked.

N. H. Nicholls

Clerk of the Privy Council

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