The Orkney Islands Area (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1992

Made: 13th December 1992

Coming into force in accordance with Article 1(2)

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 17(2) and 233 of the said Act and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, the Secretary of State hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

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• (1) This Order may be cited as the Orkney Islands Area (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1992.

• (2) This Order shall come into force on 5th May 1994 provided that for the purpose of all proceedings preliminary or relating to an election to be held on or after that day the Order shall come into force on 10th October 1993.

Interpretation

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In the Schedule to this Order—

• (a) a reference to—

• (i) an electoral division shall be construed as a reference to that electoral division as constituted in this Order;

• (ii) a road, footpath, railway line, river, burn or canal shall, where the context so admits, be construed as the centre line of the feature concerned; and

• (iii) the boundary or boundaries of a parish is to a line corresponding as nearly as may be to the line of the boundary or boundaries of the parish concerned as already published on Ordnance Survey Maps;

• (b) the expedient of defining a line beyond Mean Low Water Springs has been adopted to apportion islands to the appropriate electoral division; and

• (c) the following abbreviations are used:

• “MLWS” for the shoreline at Mean Low Water Springs;

• “ED” for Electoral Division; and

• “grid reference” for National Grid Reference as published on Ordnance Survey Maps.

Change of electoral arrangements

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The existing electoral divisions of the Orkney Islands Area shall be abolished and the said Area shall be divided into twenty-eight electoral divisions having the names, contents and boundaries set forth in the Schedule to this Order.

4

The boundaries of the electoral divisions constituted by this Order shall be defined and mered by Ordnance Survey.

Revocation

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Without prejudice to its continuing in effect for the purposes of defining the electoral divisions prior to the coming into force of this Order, the Orkney Islands Area (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1977[^f00002] is hereby revoked. Ian Lang One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh 13th December 1992

SCHEDULE — DESCRIPTIONS OF BOUNDARIES OF ELECTORAL DIVISIONS FOR ORKNEY ISLANDS AREA

Electoral Division 1: Kirkwall Pickaquoy

Commencing in the Bay of Kirkwall at the MLWS at West Pier at a point in line with Junction Road; then southward in a straight line to and along Junction Road to Mounthoolie Place; then eastward along Mounthoolie Place and Mounthoolie Lane to Albert Street; then generally southward along Albert Street, Broad Street, Victoria Street and Main Street to Junction Road; then southwestward across Junction Road and along Wellington Street and High Street to Glaitness Road; then westward along Glaitness Road to the western curtilage of Langskail then southward along said curtilage and field boundary to Corse Loan; then westward along Corse Loan to and along field boundaries lying to the north of Colwin to meet the track lying to the east of Walliwall Quarry at grid reference HY 4335 1030: then northward along said track to meet Old Finstown Road; then westward along Old Finstown Road to Sunnybank Road then northward along said road to its junction with the access road to the water reservoir at grid reference HY 4295 1185; and then northwestward along field boundary to the Hatston Burn at grid reference HY 4279 1219; and then generally north eastward following the Hatston Burn to the MLWS in the Bay of Kirkwall at grid reference HY 4350 1300; then generally eastward and southward along MLWS to point of commencement.

Electoral Division 2: Kirkwall Craigiefield

Electoral Division 3: Kirkwall Broadsands

Electoral Division 4: Kirkwall Lynnfield

Electoral Division 5: Kirkwall Quoybanks

Electoral Division 6: Kirkwall Papdale East

Electoral Division 7: Kirkwall Bignold

Electoral Division 8: Kirkwall Berstane

Electoral Division 9: Kirkwall St Magnus

Electoral Division 10: Stromness South

Electoral Division 11: Stromness Central

Electoral Division 12: Stromness North

Note: ED 12 contains all the islands in the parish of Stromness.

Electoral Division 13: Orphir and Scapa

Electoral Division 14: Firth and Sunnybrae

Electoral Division 15: Harray and Stenness

Electoral Division 16: Evie and Rendall

Electoral Division 17: Birsay

Electoral Division 18: Sandwick

Electoral Division 19: St Andrews and Deerness

Electoral Division 20: Holm and Wideford

Electoral Division 21: Burray and South Ronaldsay

Electoral Division 22: St Margaret’s Hope

Electoral Division 23: Hoy and Graemsay and Walls and Flotta

Electoral Division 24: Rousay, Egilsay and Wyre

Electoral Division 25: Shapinsay

Electoral Division 26: Stronsay and Eday

Electoral Division 27: Sanday and North Ronaldsay

Electoral Division 28: Westray and Papa Westray

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order gives effect to proposals made by the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland for a change to electoral arrangements for the Orkney Islands Area (the Area) as described in the Schedule to the Orkney Islands Area (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1977 (the 1977 Order).

The effect of the proposals is to divide the Area into 28 electoral divisions as described in the Schedule to the Order.

The 1977 Order is revoked by this Order.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1973 c. 65.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1977/1697