
1 
This Order may be cited as the Borders and Lothian Regions and Tweeddale and Midlothian Districts (Carlops) Boundaries Amendment Order 1990 and shall come into force on 1st April 1990.
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 Borders and Lothian Regions and Tweeddale and Midlothian Districts (Carlops) Boundaries Amendment Order 1990 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 Midlothian District at Paties Mill in the vicinity of Carlops in Lothian Region, being the area described in the Schedule to this Order and shown delineated and hatched on the boundary map, shall be transferred to Tweeddale District in Borders 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 40 (Penicuik) of Lothian Region and of ward 1 (Penicuik South West) of Midlothian District; and
(b) shall form part of electoral division 3 (West Tweeddale) of Borders Region and of ward 8 (Linton) of Tweeddale District.
James Douglas-Hamilton
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
St. Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
15th February 1990
SCHEDULE
Articles 2, 4 and 5

The area bounded by a line commencing on the Lothian/Borders regional boundary at a point grid reference NT 1602 5619 on the River North Esk; then generally northwards, eastwards and southwards by fenceline, which forms the curtilage boundary of property known as Paties Mill on the north side of the River North Esk, to rejoin the said regional boundary at a point grid reference NT 1612 5619 on the River North Esk; then generally westwards along the said regional boundary to the point of commencement.
