The Tayside and Fife Regions and Perth and Kinross District and Kirkcaldy District (Westfield) Boundaries Amendment Order 1987

Made: 23rd January 1987

Laid before Parliament: 12th February 1987

Coming into force: 1st April 1987

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 17(2) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973[^f00001] to give effect to proposals made by the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland under section 14(2) of the Act, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Title and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the Tayside and Fife Regions and Perth and Kinross District and Kirkcaldy District (Westfield) Boundaries Amendment Order 1987, and shall come into force on 1st April 1987.

Interpretation

2

In the Schedule to this Order any reference to a boundary of a region is a reference to the boundary existing immediately before the commencement of this Order.

Application of regulations

3

The Local Government Area Changes (Scotland) Regulations 1977[^f00002] shall apply for the purpose of this Order to such extent as may be required to implement the area changes effected by article 4 of this Order.

Area changes

4

That part of Perth and Kinross District in Tayside Region containing the opencastworkings of British Coal and the Lurgi Gas Plant of the British Gas Corporation at Westfield, being the area described in the Schedule to this Order and shown delineated and hatched on the map annexed and signed as relative to this Order, shall be transferred to Kirkcaldy District in Fife Region.

Consequential changes of electoral arrangements

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 46 (Kinross) of Tayside Region[^f00003] and District Ward 29 (East Kinross) of Perth and Kinross District[^f00004]; and

• (b) shall form part of Electoral Division 19 (Kinglassie/Cardenden) of Fife Region[^f00005] and District Ward 37 (Kinglassie/Bowhill) of Kirkcaldy District[^f00006].

SCHEDULE

The area bounded by a line commencing on the southern boundary of Tayside Region Grid Ref. NT 19029804, northwestward along the field boundary to, and northward and then northeastward by, field boundaries to Grid Ref. NT 19599830; then northward, northeastward, then northwestward by field boundaries to the south side of the unnamed access road to the British Coal offices; then westward along the south side of the said access road to, and northwestward along, the west side of the access road from Manorleys, then northeastward along the south side of an unnamed public road to Auchmuirbridge to where that road crosses the boundary of Tayside Region Grid Ref. NT 19479912; then generally southeastward then westward along the said regional boundary to the point of commencement.

Signed

Michael Ancram — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,Scottish Office — 23rd January 1987

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order transfers an area of approximately 132 hectares at Westfield from Perth and Kinross District in Tayside Region to Kirkcaldy District in Fife Region and makes consequential changes of electoral arrangements.

The area transferred is shown on the map which forms part of this note.

Copies of the map referred to in article 4 of this Order may be inspected at the offices of any of the local authorities referred to in this Order.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1973 c. 65.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1977/8.

[^f00003]: The electoral divisions of Tayside Region were constituted by S.I. 1978/58.

[^f00004]: The district wards of Perth and Kinross District were constituted by S.I. 1979/1401.

[^f00005]: The electoral divisions of Fife Region were constituted by S.I. 1977/1983.

[^f00006]: The district wards of Kirkcaldy District were constituted by S.I. 1980/210.Note: The S.I.s referred to in footnotes (a) to (d) have been amended but the amendments are not relevant to this Order.