Title and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Kyle and Carrick District and Cumnock and Doon Valley District (Loch Doon and Craigengillan Estate, Dalmellington) Boundaries Amendment Order 1987, and shall come into force on 1st April 1988.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order-

• "the 1977 Regulations" means the Local Government Area Changes (Scotland) Regulations 1977((2)); and

• "boundary maps" means the 5 maps prepared by the Scottish Office, marked "Maps of the Kyle and Carrick District and Cumnock and Doon Valley District (Loch Doon and Craigengillan Estate, Dalmellington) Boundaries Amendment Order 1987", duly numbered for reference and deposited in accordance with regulation 3 of the 1977 Regulations; and in the Schedule to this Order any reference to a boundary of a district is a reference to a boundary existing immediately before the commencement of this Order.

Application of Regulations

3.  The 1977 Regulations shall apply for the purposes of this Order to such extent as may be required to implement the area change effected by article 4 of this Order.

Area Change

4.  Part of Kyle and Carrick District containing Loch Doon and Craigengillan Estate, near Dalmellington, being the area described in the Schedule to this Order and shown delineated and hatched on the boundary maps, shall be transferred to Cumnock and Doon Valley District.

Consequential changes of electoral arrangements

5.  The area described in the Schedule to this Order (being the area transferred by article 4 of this Order)-

(a)shall cease to form part of electoral division 101 (Carrick) of Strathclyde Region((3)) and of ward 24 (Carrick North) of Kyle and Carrick District((4)); and

(b)shall form part of electoral division 103 (New Cumnock and Doon Valley) of Strathclyde Region and of ward 7 (Dalmellington) of Cumnock and Doon Valley District((5)).

Articles 2, 4 and 5

SCHEDULE

The area bounded by a line commencing at Grid Reference 40320802 a point on the Meikleholmburn on the southwestern boundary of the Cumnock and Doon Valley District thence generally southeastwards along field boundary to Lambdoughty Burn at Grid Reference NS 41910664, thence generally southwards and eastwards along that burn to where it meets an unmettled road at Grid Reference NS 42360601, thence northeastwards along the northern perimeter of that road to Red Burn Bridge at Grid Reference NS 43130624, thence southeastwards along Red Burn to Grid Reference NS 43610511, thence generally eastwards and southeastwards along field boundaries to Dalcairnie Burn at Grid Reference NS 44730473, thence southeastwards along that burn to where it meets Shalloch Burn at Grid Reference NS 45370394, thence southwestwards along that burn to Grid Reference NS 44560349, thence generally southwards along the field boundary to Black Loch, thence southwards along the western shore of that loch to and southwestwards along Knockdon Burn to Widow's Loch, thence southwestwards along the northwestern shore of that loch to and southwestwards along Knockdon Burn to Grid Reference NS 43950176, thence southeastwards along field boundaries to Grid Reference NS 45140025, thence due east to and southwards along an unnamed burn flowing from Big Hill of Glenmount to Loch Finlas, thence generally southwards along the western shore of that loch to and southwestwards along Pollgrayvie Burn to Grid Reference NX 44309643, thence southwards in a straight line to an unnamed burn at Grid Reference NX 44419579, thence generally southwards along that unnamed burn to Loch Goosie to and southwards along the eastern shore of Loch Goosie to the unnamed burn leading to Loch Reicawr, thence southwards along that burn to and generally southwestwards along the southeastern shore of Loch Reicawr to the unnamed burn leading to Loch Slochy, thence southwestwards along that burn to and generally westwards along the southern shore of Loch Slochy to the unnamed burn at Grid Reference NX 42479219, thence southeastwards along that burn to the firebreak at Grid Reference NX 42749190, thence southeastwards along that firebreak to the burn known as Tunskeen Lane, thence generally southwards along that burn to the Regional boundary at Grid Reference NX43298898, thence generally southwards and northeastwards along that regional boundary to the existing district boundary at Grid Reference NX 50389928, thence generally northwestwards along that district boundary to the point of commencement.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order transfers an area of approximately 22,115 acres at Loch Doon and Craigengillan Estate, Dalmellington from Kyle and Carrick District to Cumnock and Doon Valley District and makes consequential changes of electoral arrangements. The map annexed to and forming part of this note gives a general guide to the areas affected by this Order as from 1st April 1988.

Copies of the detailed boundary maps defined in Article 2 of this Order may be inspected at the offices of any of the local authorities referred to in this Order and may be inspected at or purchased from the Scottish Development Department's Map Library, New St Andrew's House, St James Centre, Edinburgh, EH1 3SZ.