The Western Isles 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 Western Isles 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 Western Isles Islands Area shall be abolished and the said Area shall be divided into thirty 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 Western Isles Islands Area (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1977[^f00002] is hereby revoked.

SCHEDULE — DESCRIPTIONS OF BOUNDARIES OF ELECTORAL DIVISIONS FOR WESTERN ISLES ISLANDS AREA

Electoral Division 1: Port of Ness

Commencing at MLWS on the northwest coast of the Isle of Lewis at the mouth of the Swainbost River; then generally northward and southward following MLWS to the Barvas/Stornoway parish boundary south of Dun Othail on the northeast coast of Lewis; then northwestward in a straight line to the point where the unclassified road from Cross to Skigersta crosses the Swainbost River south of Swainbost; then generally northwestward along the Swainbost River to the point of commencement.

Note: ED 1 contains the islands of Rona and Sula Sgeir.

Electoral Division 2: Dell

Electoral Division 3: Barvas

Electoral Division 4: Shawbost

Electoral Division 5: Carloway

Electoral Division 6: Uig

Electoral Di vision 7: Gress

Electoral Division 8: Coll

Electoral Division 9: Blackwater

Electoral Division 10: Laxdale

Electoral Division 11: Coulregrein

Electoral Division 12: Manor Park

Electoral Division 13: Bayhead

Electoral Division 14: Goathill

Electoral Division 15: Newton

Electoral Division 16: Sandwick

Electoral Division 17: Aignish

Electoral Division 18: Tiumpan

Electoral Division 19: North Lochs

Electoral Division 20: Lochs

Electoral Division 21: Tarbert

Electoral Division 22: Bays

Electoral Division 23: Obbe

Electoral Division 24: Paible

Note: ED 24 includes the islands of Berneray and Torogay.

Electoral Division 25: Lochmaddy

Electoral Division 26: Benbecula

Electoral Division 27: Iochdar and Electoral Division 28: Lochboisdale

Electoral Division 29: Northbay and Electoral Division 30: Castlebay

Signed

Ian Lang — One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State — 13th December 1992

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 Western Isles Islands Area (the Area) as described in the Schedule to the Western Isles Islands Area (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1977 (the 1977 Order).

The effect of the proposals is to divide the Area into 30 electoral divisions as described in the Schedule to this Order.

The 1977 Order is revoked by this Order.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1973 c. 65.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1977/1698