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.
2. In this Order–
“the 1977 Regulations” means the Local Government Area Changes (Scotland) Regulations 1977(1);
“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.
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.
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.
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(2); and
(b)shall form part of electoral ward 16 (Dumbarton West) of the area of West Dunbartonshire Council(3),
PETER J PEACOCK
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
25th March 2002