The Lord-Lieutenants (Scotland) Order 1996

Statutory Instruments

1996 No. 731 (S.83)

DEFENCE

The Lord-Lieutenants (Scotland) Order 1996

Made

13th March 1996

Coming into force

1st April 1996

At the Court of Buckingham Palace, the 13th day of March 1996

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred upon Her by section 131(1A) of the Reserve Forces Act 1980(1) and of all other powers enabling Her in that behalf, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—

1.  This Order may be cited as the Lord-Lieutenants (Scotland) Order 1996 and shall come into force on 1st April 1996.

2.  In this Order—

(a) “new local government area” means a local government area created by section 1 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994(2);

(b) any reference to a county or burgh shall be construed as a reference to that county or, as the case may be, burgh, as it existed immediately before the passing of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973(3);

(c) any reference to a district, islands area, region, electoral division (except the electoral division of Nigg) or district ward shall be construed as a reference to that district, islands area, region, electoral division or, as the case may be, district ward as it exists immediately before the making of this Order;

(d) any reference to the electoral division of Nigg shall be construed as a reference to that electoral division as it existed immediately before the passing of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973;

(e) any reference in column 2 of Schedule 2 to an area which is named in column 1 of Schedule 1 shall be construed in accordance with column 2 of Schedule 1 and any reference to the City of Glasgow shall be construed as a reference to the new local government area of the City of Glasgow,

and any reference in this Order to a numbered Schedule is to a Schedule bearing that number in this Order.

3.  For the purposes of the provisions of the Reserve Forces Act 1980 relating to lieutenancies:—

(a) Scotland is hereby divided into the areas named in column 1 of Schedule 1 which shall comprise the areas described in column 2 of that Schedule; and

(b) any deputy lieutenant named in column 1 of Schedule 2 holding office immediately before the date on which this Order is made shall (without prejudice to any power of removal or directing removal from any office) continue to hold office on and after that date as deputy lieutenant of the area or city specified in column 2 of that Schedule.

N.H. Nicholls

Clerk of the Privy Council

Article 3a

SCHEDULE 1

(1)	(2)
Name	Area
Aberdeenshire	The county of Aberdeen except those parts of that county which form part of the new local government area of Aberdeen City
Angus	The new local government area of Angus
Argyll and Bute	The district of Argyll and Bute
Ayrshire and Arran	The district of Kilmarnock and Loudoun, the district of Cumnock and Doon Valley, the district of Cunninghame and the district of Kyle and Carrick
Banffshire	The county of Banff
Berwickshire	The district of Berwickshire
Caithness	The district of Caithness
Clackmannan	The district of Clackmannan
Dumfries	The district of Nithsdale and the district of Annandale and Eskdale
Dunbartonshire	The district of Dumbarton, the district of Clydebank, the district of Bearsden and Milngavie, the district of Strathkelvin, the district of Cumbernauld and Kilsyth and the South Lenzie/Waterside district ward in electoral division 46 (Chryston) of Strathclyde region
East Lothian	The district of East Lothian
Fife	Fife region
Inverness	The district of Lochaber, the district of Inverness and the district of Badenoch and Strathspey
Kincardineshire	The county of Kincardine except the electoral division of Nigg
Lanarkshire	The district of Monklands, the district of Motherwell, the district of Hamilton, the district of East Kilbride, the district of Clydesdale and the following electoral divisions of Strathclyde region, namely electoral division 46 (Chryston) (except South Lenzie/Waterside district ward), electoral division 37 (Rutherglen/Fernhill), electoral division 38 (Cambuslang/Halfway) and, in electoral division 35 (Kingspark/Toryglen), polling districts RU03, RU04, RU09 and RU18.
Midlothian	The district of Midlothian
Moray	The county of Moray except those parts of that county which, on the passing of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, formed part of Highland Region
Nairn	The district of Nairn
Orkney	Orkney Islands area
Perth and Kinross	The new local government area of Perth and Kinross
Renfrewshire	The district of Eastwood, the district of Renfrew and the district of Inverclyde
Ross and Cromarty	The district of Ross and Cromarty and the district of Skye and Lochalsh
Roxburgh, Ettrick and Lauderdale	The district of Roxburgh and the district of Ettrick and Lauderdale
Shetland	Shetland Islands area
Stirling and Falkirk	The district of Stirling and the district of Falkirk
Sutherland	The district of Sutherland
The Stewartry of Kirkcudbright	The district of Stewartry
Tweeddale	The district of Tweeddale
West Lothian	The district of West Lothian
Western Isles	Western Isles Islands area
Wigtown	The district of Wigtown

Article 3(b)

SCHEDULE 2

(1)	(2)
Name	Area
Lady Caroline Douglas Home	Berwickshire
The Lord Glenarthur	Aberdeenshire
Mr William Leggate Smith MC TD JP	City of Glasgow
Colonel Adam Angus Fairrie	Inverness
Mr Alan Devereux CBE	Renfrewshire
Dr Helen M Laird OBE	Renfrewshire
Colonel Charles H K Corsar of Cairniehill LVO OBE TD	Midlothian
The Earl of Rosebery	Midlothian
Mr David J Bowes-Lyon	Midlothian
Mr Colin F Peters	Midlothian
Group Captain George L Denholm DFC	West Lothian
Mr James S Findlay	West Lothian
Mrs Robert Schaw Miller	West Lothian

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order divides Scotland up into areas for the purposes of the provisions of the Reserve Forces Act 1980 relating to lieutenancies. Article 3(a) and Schedule 1 create and name each of the lieutenancies in Scotland except those lieutenancies which are made up of the four city areas of Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow. Those city areas are in any event lieutenancies by virtue of section 131(2) of the said Act of 1980. Article 3(b) and Schedule 2 make provision for certain deputy lieutenants to hold office in an area or city other than that in which they reside.

(1)

1980 c. 9; section 131 was amended by paragraph 116(2) of Schedule 13 to the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c. 39).

(2)

1994 c. 39.

(3)

1973 c. 65.