The Clackmannanshire (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1998

Made: 4th December 1998

Coming into force: 1st January 1999

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 17(2) and 233(3) of, and Schedule 5 to, 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

This Order may be cited as the Clackmannanshire (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 1st January 1999.

Interpretation

2

In the Schedule to this Order–

• (a) a reference to–

• (i) an electoral ward is a reference to that electoral ward as constituted in this Order; and

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

• (b) the following abbreviations are used:–

• “EW” for electoral ward;

• “NG Ref” for National Grid Reference as published on Ordnance Survey Maps.

Electoral arrangements

3

The area of Clackmannanshire Council shall be divided into 18 wards, having the names, contents and boundaries set forth in the Schedule to this Order.

SCHEDULE — ELECTORAL WARDS

Ward 1 Menstrie

Commencing at NG Ref NN 8637 0131 on the northern boundary of Clackmannanshire Council and Old Wharry Burn; then eastward along the said burn to where it is crossed by a field boundary at NG Ref NN 8639 0131; then southward and southwestward along the said field boundary to the source of the Balquharn Burn at NG Ref NN 8621 0062; then southeastward and generally southward along the said burn to NG Ref NS 8665 9754; then southwestward in a straight line to a point in line with the western boundary of Balquharn Farm NG Ref NS 8661 9740; then southward to and southward along the said boundary to an unnamed road at NG Ref NS 8660 9725; then generally eastward along the said unnamed road to where it crosses the Balquharn Burn at NG Ref NS 8675 9723; then southward along the said burn to its confluence with the River Devon at NG Ref NS 8655 9650; then southwestward along the said river to the western boundary of Clackmannanshire Council at NG Ref NS 8452 9578; then northwestward, eastward, northeastward and eastward along the western and northern boundaries of Clackmannanshire Council to the point of commencement.

Ward 2 Alva North

then westward along the said boundary of the church to and southward and westward along the eastern and southern boundaries of the church hall to the southern curtilage of No 123 Stirling Street; then westward and northward along the southern and western curtilages of the said property to a point in line with the southern curtilage of No 52 Queen Street; then westward in a straight line to and westward along the southern curtilage of No 52 Queen Street to the rear curtilage of No 135 West Stirling Street; then generally westward along the rear curtilages of Nos 135-169 West Stirling Street to the rear curtilage of No 44 Southport; then southward along the said rear curtilage to and westward along the southern curtilage of the said property to and across Southport to the eastern curtilage of No 183 West Stirling Street; then southward along the said curtilage to and westward along the rear curtilages of Nos 183-193 West Stirling Street to Coblecrook Gardens; then westward across the said gardens to and westward along the southern curtilages of Nos 1-20 Coblecrook Gardens and the prolongation thereof in a straight line to a point in line with the eastern curtilage of No 1 Stirling Road; then southward to and along the said curtilage to and generally westward along the rear curtilages of Nos 1-43 Stirling Road to Stirling Road at NG Ref NS 8752 9700; then westward across the said road to and westward along the southern curtilages of Nos 2, 4, and 5 Myretoungate to and westward along the northern curtilage of No 15 Myretoungate to and westward along the southern curtilages of Nos 17, 19, 35 and 37 Myretoungate to Blairdenon Road; then southward along the said road to a point in line with the southern curtilage of No 2 Blairdenon Road; then westward to and along the southern curtilage of No 2 Blairdenon Road to and westward along the rear curtilages of Nos 39-43 Myretoungate to Dumyat Road; then westward across the said road to and westward along the southern curtilages of Nos 4 and 2 Dumyat Road to and northward along the rear curtilage of No 2 Dumyat Road and its prolongation in a straight line to the A91 road at NG Ref NS 8718 9704; then westward along the said road to the eastern boundary of EW 1 at NG Ref NS 8670 9703; then generally northward along the said EW boundary to the point of commencement.

Ward 3 Alva South

Ward 4 Tillicoultry West

Ward 5 Tillicoultry East

Ward 6 Dollar and Muckhart

Ward 7 Devon and Clackmannan North

Ward 8 Clackmannan

Ward 9 Gartmorn

Ward 10 Alloa North

Ward 11 Alloa East

Ward 12 Alloa Mar

Ward 13 Alloa West

Ward 14 Alloa Claremont

Ward 15 Fairfield

Ward 16 Muirside

Ward 17 St Serf's

Ward 18 Delph and Cambus

Signed

Henry B McLeish — Minister of State, Scottish Office — 4th December 1998

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order gives effect (with minor modifications of a drafting nature) to proposals made by the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland for the future electoral arrangements for the area of Clackmannanshire Council. The proposals follow on the review of the whole of Scotland undertaken by the Commission in terms of Schedule 5 to the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973. The area of Clackmannanshire Council is divided into 18 electoral wards as described in the Schedule to the Order. In terms of paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994, the wards apply with effect from the ordinary election of councillors due to take place in May 1999.

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