The Shetland Islands (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1999

Made: 15th January 1999

Coming into force: 1st February 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, commencement and application

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• (1) This Order may be cited as the Shetland Islands Council (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 1st February 1999.

• (2) This Order shall apply only for the purposes of elections to be held after 30th April 1999.

Interpretation

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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

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The area of Shetland Islands Council shall be divided into 22 wards, having the names, contents and boundaries set forth in the Schedule to this Order.

Revocation

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The Shetland Islands Area (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1992³ is hereby revoked.

SCHEDULE — ELECTORAL WARDS

Ward 1 Sound

Commencing at NG Ref HU 4383 4154 at triangulation point 174 on Hill of Dale; then eastward in a straight line to the junction of Wester Loch Drive and a footpath leading along the western shore of Loch of Clickimin at NG Ref HU 4628 4099; then southward and south eastward along the said drive to and south westward along South Road (A970) to its junction with a footpath leading to Rudda Park at NG Ref HU 4621 4043; then south eastward along the said footpath to and south eastward along an unnamed road to a point in line with the northern curtilage of No 26 Nedersund Road; then north eastward to where the northern and western curtilages of the said property meet; then south eastward along the western curtilages of Nos 26 and 25 Nedersund Road to the southern curtilage of Nos 25 and 23 Nedersund Road; then generally north eastward along the southern curtilages of Nos 25, 23, 21, 20, 18-16, 13-10 and 7-5 Nedersund Road to where the western and southern curtilages of No 3 Nedersund Road meet; then eastward to the junction of the said road and Kantersted Road; then north eastward and northward along Kantersted Road to a cul-de-sac, part of Kantersted Road serving Nos 15-33 Kantersted Road; then north eastward along the said cul-de-sac and the prolongation thereof in a straight line to an undeterminable point on the centreline of Brei Wick; then generally south eastward along the centreline of Brei Wick to and southward along the centreline of Bressay Sound to an undeterminable point to the southeast of Ruggen; then south westward in a straight line to a point in line with the centreline of Voe of Sound; then north westward along the centreline of the said sound to an undeterminable point in line with the western boundary of the properties known as Sand; then northward to and along the said boundary to and continuing northward along a field boundary to where the western and southern curtilages of No 9 Sands of Sound meet; then northward along the rear curtilages of Nos 9-3 Sands of Sound to a point on the rear curtilage of No 3 Sands of Sound in line with the north eastern boundary of Sound Gospel Hall at NG Ref HU 4619 4010; then westward to and north westward along the said boundary to Oversund Road at NG Ref HU 4613 4015; then generally northward along the said road to and south westward along South Road (A970) to a point in line with the rear curtilages of the houses on the eastern side of Upper Baila at NG Ref HU 4602 4031; then northward to and along the said rear curtilages to the northern curtilage of No 49 Fogralea; then north westward in a straight line to the point of commencement.

Ward 2 Clickimin

Ward 3 North Central

Ward 4 Breiwick

Ward 5 South Central

Ward 6 Harbour and Bressay

Ward 7 North

Ward 8 Upper Sound, Gulberwick and Quarff

Ward 9 Unst and Island of Fetlar

Ward 10 Yell

Ward 11 Northmavine, Muckle Roe and Busta

Ward 12 Delting West

Ward 13 Delting East and Lunnasting

Ward 14 Nesting, Whiteness, Girlsta and Gott

Ward 15 Scalloway

Ward 16 Whalsay/Skerries

Ward 17 Sandsting, Aithsting and Weisdale

Note: EW17 includes the islands of Vementry and Papa Little

Ward 18 Walls, Sandness and Clousta

Ward 19 Burra/Trondra

Ward 20 Cunningsburgh and Sandwick

Ward 21 Sandwick, Levenwick and Bigton

Ward 22 Dunrossness

Signed

Henry McLeish — Minister of State, Scottish Office — 15th January 1999

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 Shetland Islands 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 Shetland Islands Council is divided into 22 electoral wards as described in the Schedule to the Order. This Order has effect for the purposes of elections held after 30th April 1999 and will thus first apply as regards the ordinary election of councillors due to take place in May 1999.

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