Statutory Instruments
REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS
Made
23rd July 1996
Coming into force in accordance with Article 1(2)
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 23rd day of July 1996
Present,
The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Whereas in pursuance of paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1978(1) the Boundary Commission for Scotland have submitted to the Secretary of State a supplementary report dated 6th June 1996 showing the European Parliamentary constituencies into which they recommend, in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 1 to that Act and Part II of Schedule 2 to that Act, that Scotland should be divided:
And whereas the Secretary of State has laid that report before Parliament together with the draft of this Order in Council to give effect to the recommendations contained in the report and each House of Parliament has by resolution approved the said draft:
Now, therefore, Her Majesty, in pursuance of paragraph 4B(5) of Schedule 2 to the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1978(2), is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the European Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) Order 1996.
(2) Subject to paragraph 8(1) of Schedule 2 to the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1978(3), this Order shall come into force on the fourteenth day after the day on which it is made.
2. Scotland shall be divided into the eight European Parliamentary constituencies named in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order and each such constituency shall consist of the parliamentary constituencies specified opposite thereto in column 2 of that Schedule, being the parliamentary constituencies described in the Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) Order 1995(4).
3. The European Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) Order 1984(5) and the European Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) (Miscellaneous Changes) Order 1992(6) are revoked.
N. H. Nicholls
Clerk of the Privy Council
Article 2
| 1 | 2 |
|---|---|
| Name | Contents |
| Central Scotland | The parliamentary constituencies of- |
| Airdrie and Shotts | |
| Coatbridge and Chryston | |
| Cumbernauld and Kilsyth | |
| East Kilbride | |
| Falkirk East | |
| Falkirk West | |
| Hamilton North and Bellshill | |
| Hamilton South | |
| Kilmarnock and Loudoun | |
| Motherwell and Wishaw | |
| Glasgow | The parliamentary constituencies of- |
| Glasgow Anniesland | |
| Glasgow Baillieston | |
| Glasgow Cathcart | |
| Glasgow Govan | |
| Glasgow Kelvin | |
| Glasgow Maryhill | |
| Glasgow Pollok | |
| Glasgow Rutherglen | |
| Glasgow Shettleston | |
| Glasgow Springburn | |
| Highlands and Islands | The parliamentary constituencies of- |
| Argyll and Bute | |
| Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross | |
| Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber | |
| Moray | |
| Orkney and Shetland | |
| Ross, Skye and Inverness West | |
| Western Isles | |
| Lothians | The parliamentary constituencies of- |
| Edinburgh Central | |
| Edinburgh East and Musselburgh | |
| Edinburgh North and Leith | |
| Edinburgh Pentlands | |
| Edinburgh South | |
| Edinburgh West | |
| Linlithgow | |
| Livingston | |
| Midlothian | |
| Mid Scotland and Fife | The parliamentary constituencies of- |
| Central Fife | |
| Dunfermline East | |
| Dunfermline West | |
| Kirkcaldy | |
| North East Fife | |
| North Tayside | |
| Ochil | |
| Perth | |
| Stirling | |
| North East Scotland | The parliamentary constituencies of- |
| Aberdeen Central | |
| Aberdeen North | |
| Aberdeen South | |
| Angus | |
| Banff and Buchan | |
| Dundee East | |
| Dundee West | |
| Gordon | |
| West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine | |
| South of Scotland | The parliamentary constituencies of- |
| Ayr | |
| Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley | |
| Clydesdale | |
| Cunninghame South | |
| Dumfries | |
| East Lothian | |
| Galloway and Upper Nithsdale | |
| Roxburgh and Berwickshire | |
| Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale | |
| West of Scotland | The parliamentary constituencies of- |
| Clydebank and Milngavie | |
| Cunninghame North | |
| Dumbarton | |
| Eastwood | |
| Greenock and Inverclyde | |
| Paisley North | |
| Paisley South | |
| Strathkelvin and Bearsden | |
| West Renfrewshire |
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order gives effect without modification to the recommendations contained in the supplementary report of the Boundary Commission for Scotland dated 6th June 1996. Article 2 of, and the Schedule to, this Order set out the European Parliamentary Constituencies into which Scotland will be divided, but these constituencies will only have effect from the next European Parliamentary general election (Article 1(2)).
1978 c. 10: paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 was substituted by section 1(1) of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1981 (c. 8) and amended by paragraph 5(2) of Schedule 3 to the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986 (c. 56): the words “European Parliamentary” were substituted for the words “European Assembly” in the provisions concerning the citation of the 1978 and 1981 Acts by section 3(1)(b) and (2)(b) of the European Communities (Amendment) Act 1986 (c. 58) on the coming into force of the Single European Act on 1st July 1987.
Paragraph 4B was inserted by paragraph 5(4) of Schedule 3 to the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986.
Paragraph 8(1) was amended by paragraph 5(9) of Schedule 3 to the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986 and by section 3(1) and (3) of the European Communities (Amendment) Act 1986.
S.I. 1995/1037.
S.I. 1984/548.
S.I. 1992/236.