The Grampian and Highland Regions and Moray and Badenoch and Strathspey Districts (Dava/Aitnoch Farm) Boundaries Amendment Order 1989

Title and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Grampian and Highland Regions and Moray and Badenoch and Strathspey Districts (Dava/Aitnoch Farm) Boundaries Amendment Order 1989, and shall come into force on 1st April 1989.

Interpretation

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 Grampian and Highland Regions and Moray and Badenoch and Strathspey Districts (Dava/Aitnoch Farm) 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.

Application of Regulations

3.  Save insofar as they can have no application in relation to the area changes affected by this Order, the provisions of the 1977 Regulations shall apply in relation thereto for the purposes of, or in consequence of, this Order.

Area changes

4.—(1) Part of Badenoch and Strathspey District in Highland Region, being the Area A described in the Schedule to this Order and shown delineated, hatched and marked “Area A” on the boundary map, shall be transferred to Moray District in Grampian Region.

(2) Part of Moray District in Grampian Region, being the Area B described in the Schedule to this Order and shown delineated, hatched and marked “Area B” on the boundary map, shall be transferred to Badenoch and Strathspey District in Highland Region.

Consequential changes of electoral arrangements

5.—(1) Area A described in the Schedule to this Order (being the Area A transferred by article 4(1) of this Order)—

(a) shall cease to form part of electoral division 43 (Strathspey) of Highland Region( (2)) and of ward 3 of Badenoch and Strathspey District( (3)); and

(b) shall form part of electoral division 3 (Ernedal) of Grampian Region( (4)) and of ward 6 (Findhorn Valley) of Moray District( (5)).

(2) Area B described in the Schedule to this Order (being the Area B transferred by article 4(2) of this Order)—

(a) shall cease to form part of electoral division 3 (Ernedal) of Grampian Region and of ward 6 (Findhorn Valley) of Moray District; and

(b) shall form part of electoral division 43 (Strathspey) of Highland Region and of ward 3 of Badenoch and Strathspey District.

James Douglas-Hamilton

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

1st March 1989