The Highland Region (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1993

Made: 15th April 1993

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

1

• (1) This Order may be cited as the Highland Region (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1993.

• (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

2

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, track, railway line, pier, firth, channel, 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

3

The existing electoral divisions of the Highland Region shall be abolished and the said Region shall be divided into fifty-four 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

5

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 Highland Region (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1978([^f00002]) is hereby revoked.

SCHEDULE — DESCRIPTION OF BOUNDARIES OF ELECTORAL DIVISIONS FOR THE HIGHLAND REGION

Electoral Division 1: Thurso West

Commencing at grid reference ND 1073 6926 at MLWS on the northern boundary of Highland Region and Caithness District at the mouth of the Burnside Burn, west of Thurso; then generally southeastward along the said regional and district boundary to a point on that boundary due north of the steps at the western end of the Esplanade; then southward to and southwestward up to said steps to the northern end of Olrig Street; then southeastward along Olrig Street to a point in the said street opposite the boundary between Nos 20 and 22, Olrig Street; then southwestward following the property boundary to Cowie Lane and continuing southwestward along the rear curtilage of properties on the west side of Duncan Street to Davidson’s Lane; then northwestward along Davidson’s Lane to Sweyn Road; then southwestward along Sweyn Road to its junction with St Magnus Road; then northwestward along St Magnus Road to its junction with St Olaf Road; then generally southwestward along St Olaf Road to its junction with Castlegreen Road; then generally southeastward along Castlegreen Road to where the said road meets Princes Street and Lovers Lane immediately opposite the Thurso Railway Station; then generally southward through the station and along the railway line to a point in line with field boundaries leading northwestward to Dunbar Hospital; then northwestward along the said field boundaries to Ormlie Road; then southwestward along the said road to a point opposite the southern curtilage of the Dunbar Hospital; then northwestward and northeastward along the southern and western curtilage of the said hospital to where it meets field boundaries; then northwestward and northeastward along the said line of field boundaries to the Wolf Burn; then northward, northwestward and northeastward along the Wolf Burn and the Burnside Burn to where it meets the sea; then generally southeastward to the point of commencement.

Electoral Division 2: Thurso East

Electoral Division 3: Wick

Electoral Division 4: Pulteney

Electoral Division 5: North East Caithness

NOTE: This ED includes the islands in the former parish of Canisbay.

Electoral Division 6: South East Caithness

Electoral Division 7: West Caithness

Electoral Division 8: Dornoch, Creich and Kincardine

Electoral Division 9: Fleet

Electoral Division 10: North West Sutherland

Electoral Division 11: East Sutherland

Electoral Division 12: Tongue and Farr

Electoral Division 13: Lochbroom

Electoral Division 14: Wester Ross

Electoral Division 15: Strathconon

Electoral Division 16: Dingwall

Electoral Division 17: Ord and Conon

Electoral Division 18: Black Isle West

Electoral Division 19: Black Isle East

Electoral Division 20: Ferindonald

Electoral Division 21: Alness and Ardross

Electoral Division 22: Invergordon

Electoral Division 23: Easter Ross

Electoral Division 24: Tain

Electoral Division 25: Sleat and South West Ross

Electoral Division 26: Central Skye

Electoral Division 27: North and West Skye

Electoral Division 28: Fort William

Electoral Division 29: Caol and Inverlochy

Electoral Division 30: Nevis

Electoral Division 31: Mallaig-Ardnamurchan-Small Isles

Electoral Division 32: Kinlochleven-Ballachulish-Glencoe-Duror

Electoral Division 33: Merkinch

Electoral Division 34: Caledonian Canal

Electoral Division 35: Ballifeary-Columba

Electoral Division 36: Ness and Muirtown

Electoral Division 37: Crown-Raigmore

Electoral Division 38: Old Edinburgh

Electoral Division 39: Allt Na Sgitheach

Electoral Division 40: Drummond

Electoral Division 41: Hilton

Electoral Division 42: Ardersier, Petty and Balloch

Electoral Division 43: Inshes

Electoral Division 44: Culloden and Smithtown

Electoral Division 45: Strathdearn, Strathnairn and Loch Ness East

Electoral Division 46: Aird South

Electoral Division 47: Scorguie

Electoral Division 48: Aird North

Electoral Division 49: Strathspey

Electoral Division 50: Cairngorm

Electoral Division 51: Badenoch

Electoral Division 52: Ninian

Electoral Division 53: Nairn County

Electoral Division 54: Alltan

Signed

Ian Lang — One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State — 15th April 1993

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 Highland Region (the Region) as described in the Schedule to the Highland Region (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1978 (the 1978 Order).

The effect of the proposals is to divide the Region into 54 electoral divisions as described in the Schedule to this Order.

The 1978 Order is revoked by this Order.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1973 c. 65.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1978/59.