The Glasgow City Council Area and North Lanarkshire Council Area (Cardowan by Stepps) Boundaries Amendment Order 2009

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2009 No. 368

Local Government

The Glasgow City Council Area and North Lanarkshire Council Area (Cardowan by Stepps) Boundaries Amendment Order 2009

Made

27th October 2009

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

28th October 2009

Coming into force

1st April 2010

The Scottish Ministers make this Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 17(2) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973(1) and all other powers enabling them to do so.

This Order gives effect without modification to proposals made to them by the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland on 24th March 2009.

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Glasgow City Council Area and North Lanarkshire Council Area (Cardowan by Stepps) Boundaries Amendment Order 2009 and comes into force on 1st April 2010.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order—

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

“the transfer area” is that part of the area of Glasgow City Council described in the Schedule and shown delineated and hatched on the boundary map recorded by the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland on the DVD-ROM—

(i) entitled “The Glasgow City Council Area and North Lanarkshire Council Area (Cardowan by Stepps) Boundaries Amendment 2009 Map”; and

(ii) deposited with the local authorities affected and elsewhere in accordance with regulation 3 of the 1977 Regulations; and

(b) references to administrative boundaries in the Schedule are references to the boundaries existing immediately before the commencement of this Order.

Application of the 1977 Regulations

3.  The 1977 Regulations 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.  The transfer area is transferred to the area of North Lanarkshire Council.

Consequential changes of electoral arrangements

5.  The transfer area shall—

(a) cease to form part of electoral ward 21 (North East) of the area of Glasgow City Council(3); and

(b) form part of electoral ward 5 (Strathkelvin) of the area of North Lanarkshire Council(4).

BRUCE CRAWFORD

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

27th October 2009

Article 2

SCHEDULE

The transfer area is the area situated at the administrative boundary between Glasgow City Council and North Lanarkshire Council from the point just to the west of the south-western corner of Honeywell Court at Grid reference NS669678; then generally eastwards for a distance of around 250m along the outer face of the rear fences of the properties in Honeywell Court, Honeywell Drive and Honeywell Place, until it reaches the roundabout at the south-eastern corner of the estate; then northwards for a distance of around 250m along the eastern face of the bounding fence at the eastern edge of Dewar Road until it meets the administrative boundary at Grid reference NS671681; and then westwards and southwards along the administrative boundary to the point of commencement.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

The Scottish Ministers directed the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland in accordance with section 15(2) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 to conduct a review of a local government boundary and received its report on 24th March 2009. The report made proposals for the transfer of a certain area between Glasgow City Council and North Lanarkshire Council, and also made proposals for changes in electoral arrangements consequential to that change in local government areas. This Order gives effect to that report, as submitted to the Scottish Ministers.

This Order transfers the area of land described in the Schedule from Glasgow City Council to North Lanarkshire Council on 1st April 2010 (article 4) and makes consequential changes to electoral arrangements (article 5).

The boundary map delineating the boundaries amended by this Order is stored on DVD-ROM. Copies of the DVD-ROM are available for inspection by the public from the local authorities concerned.

The following map 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 Glasgow City Council were constituted by S.S.I. 2006/546.

(4)

The electoral wards of North Lanarkshire Council were constituted by S.S.I. 2006/532.