Whereas in pursuance of paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1978(1) the Boundary Commission for Scotland have submitted to the Secretary of State a supplementary report dated 6th June 1996 showing the European Parliamentary constituencies into which they recommend, in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 1 to that Act and Part II of Schedule 2 to that Act, that Scotland should be divided:
And whereas the Secretary of State has laid that report before Parliament together with the draft of this Order in Council to give effect to the recommendations contained in the report and each House of Parliament has by resolution approved the said draft:
Now, therefore, Her Majesty, in pursuance of paragraph 4B(5) of Schedule 2 to the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1978(2), is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the European Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) Order 1996.
(2) Subject to paragraph 8(1) of Schedule 2 to the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1978(3), this Order shall come into force on the fourteenth day after the day on which it is made.
2. Scotland shall be divided into the eight European Parliamentary constituencies named in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order and each such constituency shall consist of the parliamentary constituencies specified opposite thereto in column 2 of that Schedule, being the parliamentary constituencies described in the Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) Order 1995(4).
3. The European Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) Order 1984(5) and the European Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) (Miscellaneous Changes) Order 1992(6) are revoked.
N. H. Nicholls
Clerk of the Privy Council
Article 2
SCHEDULENAMES AND CONTENTS OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES IN SCOTLAND
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Name
Contents
Central Scotland
The parliamentary constituencies of-
Airdrie and Shotts
Coatbridge and Chryston
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth
East Kilbride
Falkirk East
Falkirk West
Hamilton North and Bellshill
Hamilton South
Kilmarnock and Loudoun
Motherwell and Wishaw
Glasgow
The parliamentary constituencies of-
Glasgow Anniesland
Glasgow Baillieston
Glasgow Cathcart
Glasgow Govan
Glasgow Kelvin
Glasgow Maryhill
Glasgow Pollok
Glasgow Rutherglen
Glasgow Shettleston
Glasgow Springburn
Highlands and Islands
The parliamentary constituencies of-
Argyll and Bute
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber
Moray
Orkney and Shetland
Ross, Skye and Inverness West
Western Isles
Lothians
The parliamentary constituencies of-
Edinburgh Central
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh
Edinburgh North and Leith
Edinburgh Pentlands
Edinburgh South
Edinburgh West
Linlithgow
Livingston
Midlothian
Mid Scotland and Fife
The parliamentary constituencies of-
Central Fife
Dunfermline East
Dunfermline West
Kirkcaldy
North East Fife
North Tayside
Ochil
Perth
Stirling
North East Scotland
The parliamentary constituencies of-
Aberdeen Central
Aberdeen North
Aberdeen South
Angus
Banff and Buchan
Dundee East
Dundee West
Gordon
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
South of Scotland
The parliamentary constituencies of-
Ayr
Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley
Clydesdale
Cunninghame South
Dumfries
East Lothian
Galloway and Upper Nithsdale
Roxburgh and Berwickshire
Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale
West of Scotland
The parliamentary constituencies of-
Clydebank and Milngavie
Cunninghame North
Dumbarton
Eastwood
Greenock and Inverclyde
Paisley North
Paisley South
Strathkelvin and Bearsden
West Renfrewshire
Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order gives effect without modification to the recommendations contained in the supplementary report of the Boundary Commission for Scotland dated 6th June 1996. Article 2 of, and the Schedule to, this Order set out the European Parliamentary Constituencies into which Scotland will be divided, but these constituencies will only have effect from the next European Parliamentary general election (Article 1(2)).
(1)
1978 c. 10: paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 was substituted by section 1(1) of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1981 (c. 8) and amended by paragraph 5(2) of Schedule 3 to the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986 (c. 56): the words “European Parliamentary” were substituted for the words “European Assembly” in the provisions concerning the citation of the 1978 and 1981 Acts by section 3(1)(b) and (2)(b) of the European Communities (Amendment) Act 1986 (c. 58) on the coming into force of the Single European Act on 1st July 1987.
(2)
Paragraph 4B was inserted by paragraph 5(4) of Schedule 3 to the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986.
(3)
Paragraph 8(1) was amended by paragraph 5(9) of Schedule 3 to the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986 and by section 3(1) and (3) of the European Communities (Amendment) Act 1986.
(4)
S.I. 1995/1037.
(5)
S.I. 1984/548.
(6)
S.I. 1992/236.