The Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) Order 1995

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) Order 1995.

(2) Subject to section 4(6) of the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986, this Order shall come into force on the fourteenth day after the day on which it is made.

(3) In this Order—

(a)any reference to an electoral division in a district is a reference to an electoral division of the region in which that district is situated; and

(b)any reference to a region, islands area, district or electoral division is a reference to the region, islands area, district or, as the case may be, electoral division as they existed on 15th December 1994.

2.  Scotland shall be divided into the constituencies—

(a)which are named in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order;

(b)which comprise the areas which are set out in column 2 of that Schedule opposite the name of the constituency; and

(c)which are designated as being either county constituencies or burgh constituencies according to the heading in column 1 of that Schedule under which the name of the constituency is listed.

3.  Each electoral registration officer for the constituencies referred to in Article 2 above shall make such re-arrangement or adaptation of the registers of parliamentary electors as may be necessary to give effect to this Order.

4.  The following Orders are revoked, namely:—

(a)the Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) Order 1983(1);

(b)the Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) (Miscellaneous Changes) Order 1987(2);

(c)the Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) (Miscellaneous Changes) Order 1988(3); and

(d)the Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) (Miscellaneous Changes) Order 1990(4).