Title and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Fife and Tayside Regions and North East Fife and Perth and Kinross Districts (Duncrievie) Boundaries Amendment Order 1988, 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 map" means the map prepared by the Scottish Office, marked "The Fife and Tayside Regions and North East Fife and Perth and Kinross Districts (Duncrievie) Boundaries Amendment Order 1988 Map" 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 region is a reference to a boundary existing immediately before the commencement of this Order.

Application of Regulations

3. Save insofar as they can have no application in relation to the area change effected by this Order, the provisions of the 1977 Regulations shall apply in relation thereto for the purposes of, or in consequence of, this Order.

Area change

4. Part of North East Fife District in Fife Region containing a small section of the M90 motorway to the south east of the village of Duncrievie, being the area described in the Schedule to this Order and shown delineated and hatched on the boundary map, shall be transferred to Perth and Kinross District in Tayside Region.

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 22 (Auchtermuchty/Newburgh) of Fife Region((3)) and ward 5 (Auchtermuchty and Strathmiglo) of North East Fife District((4)); and

(b)shall form part of electoral division 46 (Kinross) of Tayside Region((5)) and ward 28 (West Kinross) of Perth and Kinross District((6)).

Articles 2, 4 and 5

SCHEDULE

The area bounded by a line commencing at a point on the existing regional boundary grid reference NO 1447 0924, thence southeastwards along the trunk road (motorway) boundary fenceline to rejoin the existing regional boundary at a point grid reference NO 1470 0871, thence northwestwards and generally northwards along that boundary to the point of commencement.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order transfers an area of approximately 10.5 acres at Duncrievie from North East Fife District in Fife Region to Perth and Kinross District in Tayside Region and makes consequential changes to electoral arrangements.

The map annexed to and forming part of this note gives a general guide to the area affected by this Order as from 1st April 1988.

Copies of the detailed boundary map 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.