
1 
This Order may be cited as the Strathclyde and Central Regions and Monklands and Falkirk Districts (Black Loch) Boundaries Amendment Order 1988, and shall come into force on 1st April 1988.
2 
In this Order—
 “the 1977 Regulations” means the Local Government Area Changes (Scotland) Regulations 1977(); and
 “boundary map” means the map prepared by the Scottish Office, marked “The Strathclyde and Central Regions and Monklands and Falkirk Districts (Black Loch) 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.
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.
4 
Part of Monklands District in Strathclyde Region containing an area of ground at Black Loch, being the area described in the Schedule to this Order and shown delineated and hatched on the boundary map, shall be transferred to Falkirk District in Central Region.
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 54 (Airdrie East) of Strathclyde Region() and of ward 12 (New Monklands East) of Monklands District(); and
(b) shall form part of electoral division 34 (Avonside) of Central Region() and of ward 36 (Avon) of Falkirk District().
James Douglas-Hamilton
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
New St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
11th February 1988
SCHEDULE
Articles 2, 4 and 5

The area of ground bounded by a line commencing on the regional boundary at a point grid reference NS 8544 7016, thence southwards, southeastwards and generally northwards by track and fence line to rejoin the regional boundary at a point grid reference NS 8649 6956, thence northwestwards and westwards along that boundary to the point of commencement.
