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1
This Order may be cited as the Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) Order 1995.
2
Subject to section 4(6) of the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986, this Order shall come into force on the fourteenth day after the day on which it is made.
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In this Order—
a
any reference to an electoral division in a district is a reference to an electoral division of the region in which that district is situated; and
b
any reference to a region, islands area, district or electoral division is a reference to the region, islands area, district or, as the case may be, electoral division as they existed on 15th December 1994.
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Scotland shall be divided into the constituencies—
a
which are named in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order;
b
which comprise the areas which are set out in column 2 of that Schedule opposite the name of the constituency; and
c
which are designated as being either county constituencies or burgh constituencies according to the heading in column 1 of that Schedule under which the name of the constituency is listed.
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Each electoral registration officer for the constituencies referred to in Article 2 above shall make such re-arrangement or adaptation of the registers of parliamentary electors as may be necessary to give effect to this Order.
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The following Orders are revoked, namely:—
a
the Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) Order 19832;
b
the Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) (Miscellaneous Changes) Order 19873;
c
the Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) (Miscellaneous Changes) Order 19884; and
d
the Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) (Miscellaneous Changes) Order 19905.