1. This Order may be cited as the Lothian and Borders Regions and Midlothian and Ettrick and Lauderdale Districts (Brothershiels) Boundaries Amendment Order 1989, and shall come into force on 1st April 1989.
2. In this Order—
“the 1977 Regulations” means the Local Government Area Changes (Scotland) Regulations 1977( (1)); and
“boundary map” means the map prepared by the Scottish Office marked “The Lothian and Borders Regions and Midlothian and Ettrick and Lauderdale Districts (Brothershiels) Boundaries Amendment Order 1989 Map” and deposited in accordance with regulation 3 of the 1977 Regulations;
and, in the Schedule to this Order, any reference to a boundary of a region is a reference to a boundary existing immediately before the commencement of this Order.
3. Save insofar as they can have no application in relation to the area change effected by this Order, the provisions of the 1977 Regulations shall apply in relation thereto for the purposes of, or in consequence of, this Order.
4. Part of Midlothian District at Brothershiels in Lothian Region, being the area described in the Schedule to this Order and shown delineated and hatched on the boundary map, shall be transferred to Ettrick and Lauderdale District in Borders Region.
5. The area described in the Schedule to this Order (being the area transferred by article 4 of this Order)—
(a)shall cease to form part of electoral division 44 (Mayfield/Gorebridge) of Lothian Region( (2)) and of ward 15 (Pathhead) of Midlothian District( (3)); and
(b)shall form part of electoral division 8 (Galawater/Lauder) of Borders Region( (4)) and of ward 9 (Lauder) of Ettrick and Lauderdale District( (5)).
James Douglas-Hamilton
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
16th February 1989