New Parishes (Scotland) Act 1844

2 Largeness of the population to be a reason for division of parish.U.K.

A parish may be deemed and held to be too large, and may, as such, be disjoined or divided under the provisions of the said recited Act as altered and amended by this Act, by reason of the largeness of the population of such parish, although the superficial measurement thereof may not be too large for one parish.