1.-(1) This Order may be cited as the European Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) (Miscellaneous Changes) Order 1992.

(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. For the six European Parliamentary constituencies of Strathclyde West, Strathclyde East, Glasgow, Lothians, South of Scotland and Mid Scotland and Fife, as constituted by the European Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) (Miscellaneous Changes) Order 1989(4) (and described by reference to the parliamentary constituencies referred to in that Order), and for the European Parliamentary Constitutency of North East Scotland as consti tuted by the European Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) Order 1984(5) (and described by reference to the parliamentary constituencies referred to in that Order), there shall be substituted the seven European Parliamentary constituencies named on the left-hand side of the Schedule to this Order and comprising the parliamentary constituencies which are set out on the right-hand side and which are constituted-

(a)in the case of the Cunninghame North, Eastwood, Strathkelvin and Bearsden, East Kilbride, Glasgow Rutherglen, Motherwell North, Glasgow Cathcart, Glasgow Springburn, Edinburgh East, Linlithgow, Midlothian, East Lothian, Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale, North East Fife, Perth and Kinross, Stirling and North Tayside constituencies, by the Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) (Miscel laneous Changes) Order 1990(6);

(b)in the case of the Clydebank and Milngavie, Monklands East, Glasgow Garscadden, Glasgow Maryhill, Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Clydesdale, Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, Central Fife, Clackmannan, Dunfermline East, Dunfermline West and Falkirk East constituencies, by the Parliamentary Constituencies (Scot land) (Miscellaneous Changes) Order 1988(7);

(c)in the case of the Edinburgh South, Ayr, Cunninghame South, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Hamilton and Dumbarton constituencies, by the Parliamentary Con stituencies (Scotland) (Miscellaneous Changes) Order 1987(8); and

(d)in the case of the remaining constituencies by the Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) Order 1983(9).

3.-(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, the European Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) (Miscellaneous Changes) Order 1989 is revoked.

(2) The revocation shall not affect any election earlier than the first general election of representatives to the European Parliament held after this Order comes into force.

Article 2

SCHEDULENAMES AND AREAS OF ALTERED EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES IN SCOTLAND

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 4th July 1991. The report contains proposals for changes to the areas comprised in the European Parliamentary constituencies of Strathclyde West, Strathclyde East, Glasgow, Lothians, South of Scotland, Mid Scotland and Fife and North East Scotland where changes to the boundaries of parliamen tary constituencies have resulted in inconsistencies between those boundaries and the boun daries of European Parliamentary constituencies. Article 2 of, and the Schedule to, this Order set out the altered constituencies.

By virtue of the provision referred to in article 1(2), the altered constituencies will only have effect from the next European Parliamentary general election.

The revocation of the European Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) (Miscellaneous Changes) Order 1989 by article 3 will also only have effect from the next European Parliamentary general election.