The Argyll and Bute Council and West Dunbartonshire Council Boundaries (Ardoch Sewage Works) Amendment Order 2002

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2002 No. 155

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

The Argyll and Bute Council and West Dunbartonshire Council Boundaries (Ardoch Sewage Works) Amendment Order 2002

Made

25th March 2002

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

26th March 2002

Coming into force

1st June 2002

Whereas under section 17(1) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973(1) the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland on 17th January 2001 submitted to the Scottish Ministers a report on a review conducted under section 14(2) of that Act in which they made proposals for the transfer of a certain area between the Argyll and Bute Council and West Dunbartonshire Council, and in which they also made proposals for changes in electoral arrangements consequential on that change in local government areas; Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 17(2) of the said Act and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf the Scottish Ministers hereby make the following Order to give effect to the proposals of that Commission as submitted to them:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Argyll and Bute Council and West Dunbartonshire Council Boundaries (Ardoch Sewage Works) Amendment Order 2002 and shall come into force on 1st June 2002.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order–

“the 1977 Regulations” means the Local Government Area Changes (Scotland) Regulations 1977(2);

“boundary map” means the map prepared by the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland marked “The Argyll and Bute Council and West Dunbartonshire Council Boundaries (Ardoch Sewage Works) Amendment Order 2002 Map” and deposited in accordance with regulation 3 of the 1977 Regulations;

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

Application of the 1977 Regulations

3.  The provisions of the 1977 Regulations shall apply in relation to the area change effected by this Order except insofar as they can have no application in relation to that change.

Area change

4.  That part of the area of Argyll and Bute Council, being the area described in the Schedule and shown delineated and hatched on the boundary map, shall be transferred to the area of West Dunbartonshire Council.

Consequential changes of electoral arrangements

5.  The area described in the Schedule (being the area transferred by article 4 of this Order)–

(a) shall cease to form part of electoral ward 36 (Cardross) of the area of Argyll and Bute Council(3); and

(b) shall form part of electoral ward 16 (Dumbarton West) of the area of West Dunbartonshire Council(4),

PETER J PEACOCK

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

25th March 2002

Article 4

SCHEDULE

Commencing on the existing administrative boundary between Argyll and Bute Council and West Dunbartonshire Council at a point NG Ref NS 3726 7591 on the A814; then generally south eastward and southward along the said administrative boundary to the centreline of the Firth of Clyde; then north westward along the centreline of the said firth to an undeterminable point in line with a drain to the west of Ardoch Sewage Works at NG Ref NS 3714 7570; then north eastward in a straight line to and north eastward and northward along the said drain to a field boundary at NG Ref NS 3719 7583; then northward along the said field boundary and its prolongation in a straight line to the A814; then south eastward along the said road to the point of commencement.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order transfers on 1st June 2002 between Argyll and Bute Council and West Dunbartonshire Council the area of land described in the Schedule to this Order (article 4) and makes consequential changes to electoral arrangements (article 5).

The map annexed to and forming part of this note gives a general guide to the area affected by this Order.

(1)

1973 c. 65. The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46).

(2)

S.I. 1977/8.

(3)

The electoral wards of Argyll and Bute Council were constituted by S.I. 1998/3244.

(4)

The electoral wards of the West Dunbartonshire Council were constituted by S.I. 1998/3075.