The Falkirk (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1998

Made: 16th 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 Falkirk (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 Falkirk Council shall be divided into 32 wards, having the names, contents and boundaries set forth in the Schedule to this Order.

SCHEDULE — ELECTORAL WARDS

Ward 1 Camelon

Commencing at the point where the Glasgow to Falkirk and Stirling railway crosses beneath the Forth and Clyde Canal at NG Ref NS 8518 8031, then following the centreline of the railway track northeastward to the Carmuirs West Junction; then northeastward along the centre of the Glasgow to Falkirk (Grahamston) branch railway line to Carmuirs East Junction; then eastward along the centreline of the Stirling to Falkirk railway track to the bridge across the A9 Stirling Road, Falkirk; then southward along the centreline of Stirling Road to its junction with Main Street, Camelon; then eastward along the centreline of Main Street, Camelon to its junction with Union Road; then southward along the centreline of Union Road to Lock 16 on the Forth and Clyde canal; returning westward along the centre of the Forth and Clyde canal to the point where it crosses over the Glasgow to Falkirk and Stirling railway and point of commencement.

Ward 2 Summerford

Ward 3 Woodlands

Ward 4 Town Centre

Ward 5 Hall Glen

Ward 6 Dawson

Ward 7 Grahamsford

Ward 8 Middlefield

Ward 9 Zetland

Ward 10 Beancross

Ward 11 Inchyra

Ward 12 Dundas/Kerse

Ward 13 Grange and Blackness

Ward 14 Dean

Ward 15 Borrowstoun

Ward 16 Kinneil and Whitecross

Ward 17 Forthside

Ward 18 Kinnaird

Ward 19 Carrongrange

Ward 20 Tryst

Ward 21 Larbert

Ward 22 Herbertshire

Ward 23 Denny

Ward 24 Denny South

Ward 25 Bonnybridge

Ward 26 Banknock

Ward 27 Laurieston

Ward 28 Polmont

Ward 29 Redding and Westquarter

Ward 30 Darnrig

Ward 31 Reddingmuirhead, Brightons and Rumford

Ward 32 Avon

Signed

Henry B McLeish — Minister of State, Scottish Office — 16th 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 Falkirk 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 Falkirk Council is divided into 32 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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