Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Dumfries and Galloway and Strathclyde Regions and Cumnock and Doon Valley and Stewartry Districts (Loch Doon) Boundaries Amendment Order 1993, and shall come into force on 1st April 1993.

Interpretation

2. In this Order:-

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

"boundary map" means the map prepared by The Scottish Office marked "The Dumfries and Galloway and Strathclyde Regions and Cumnock and Doon Valley and Stewartry Districts (Loch Doon) Boundaries Amendment Order 1993" and deposited in accordance with regulation 3 of the 1977 Regulations;

and, in the Schedule to this Order, any reference to a regional boundary is a reference to such a boundary as it exists immediately before the commencement of this Order.

Application of 1977 Regulations

3. Save insofar as they can have no application 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. That part of Stewartry District, comprising land in the vicinity of the property known as Loch Head Cottage and an area of ground at Loch Doon in Dumfries and Galloway Region, being the area described in the Schedule to this Order and shown delineated and hatched on the boundary map, shall be transferred to Cumnock and Doon Valley District in Strathclyde Region.

Consequential changes in 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 11 (Stewartry North) of Dumfries and Galloway Region(3) and ward 7 (Glenkens) of Stewartry District(4); and

(b)shall form part of electoral division 103 (New Cumnock and Doon Valley) of Strathclyde Region(5) and ward 7 (Dalmellington) of Cumnock and Doon Valley District(6).

Articles 2, 4 and 5

SCHEDULE

The area bounded by a line commencing at a point (Grid Reference NX 50959927) on the Strathclyde/ Dumfries and Galloway regional boundary then in a westerly direction to the eastern shore of Loch Doon (as defined by Ordnance Survey on the map to the point (Grid Reference NX 50939926); then generally southeastwards and then southwestwards always following the eastern shore line of Loch Doon (as defined by Ordnance Survey on the boundary map) to a point (Grid Reference NX 50949891); then generally northwestwards, westwards, southwards and southwestwards again always following the eastern shore line of the said Loch (as defined on the boundary map) to the small burn at Grid Reference NX 48559292; then southeastwards following the centre line of the said burn to the point at which it crosses an unnamed track (Grid Reference NX 48809274); then southwestwards following the south side of said track to the point at which it crosses the Loch Head Burn (Grid Reference NX 48629263); then southeastwards following the centre line of the said burn to the point (Grid Reference NX 48789226); then northwestwards by the south face of the dry stone dyke which passes to the south of all buildings forming parts of the property at Loch Head Cottage to a point at Gala Lane on the regional boundary (Grid Reference NX 48089244); then generally northeastwards following the said boundary to a point at Grid Reference NX 50939926; then generally eastwards following the said boundary to the point of commencement.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order transfers on 1st April 1993 an area of 23.43 hectares at Loch Doon from Stewartry District in Dumfries and Galloway Region to Cumnock and Doon Valley District in Strathclyde 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.

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 Office Environment Department's Map Library, New St Andrew's House, Edinburgh, EH1 3TG.