The Scottish Network 1 Tourist Board Scheme Order 2004

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order makes a scheme for the establishment of a new area tourist board for the local government areas of City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, Midlothian, West Lothian, Dumfries and Galloway, City of Glasgow, East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, North Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, South Lanarkshire, Scottish Borders, East Ayrshire, North Ayrshire and South Ayrshire (“the Board”). The Board is to be called “the Scottish Network 1 Tourist Board”.

The following existing tourist boards for these areas shall be wound up with effect from 1st April 2005:

• The Edinburgh and Lothians Tourist Board

• The Dumfries and Galloway Tourist Board

• The Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley Tourist Board

• The Scottish Borders Tourist Board

• The Ayrshire and Arran Tourist Board

Article 3 provides that the scheme set out in Schedule 1 to the Order shall have effect from 1st April 2005, but provides that the scheme shall have effect from the date of coming into force of the Order, namely 1st December 2004, in relation to–

(a) the constitution of the Board;

(b) the carrying out by the Board of any functions necessary to bring the scheme into operation on that date; and

(c) any functions necessary to wind up the existing boards on 1st April 2005.

The scheme deals with–

• The membership of the Board and the controlling body of the Board

• The Proceedings of the Board

• The Board’s duty to keep accounting records

• Additional functions and powers of the Board

• Conditions on which the Board may be a member of a company

• The staff employed by the Board and the transfer of the staff employed by the existing tourist boards to the employment of the Board

• The transfer of the property, rights and liabilities of the existing boards to the Board

• The revocation of the Orders establishing the existing boards.