The Dumfries and Galloway and Strathclyde Regions and Cumnock and Doon Valley and Stewartry Districts (Loch Doon) Boundaries Amendment Order 1993

Statutory Instruments

1993 No. 640 (S.86)

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, SCOTLAND

CHANGES IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS

The Dumfries and Galloway and Strathclyde Regions and Cumnock and Doon Valley and Stewartry Districts (Loch Doon) Boundaries Amendment Order 1993

Made

8th March 1993

Laid before Parliament

11th March 1993

Coming into force

1st April 1993

Whereas under section 17(1) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973(1) the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland on 19th November 1991 submitted to the Secretary of State a report on a review conducted under section 14(2) of that Act in which they made proposals for the transfer of a certain area from Stewartry District in Dumfries and Galloway Region to Cumnock and Doon Valley District of Strathclyde Region and in which they also made proposals for changes in electoral arrangements consequential on that change in local government areas;

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 17(2) of the said Act, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, the Secretary of State hereby makes the following Order to give effect to the proposals of the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland as submitted to him: