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(1) This Order may be cited as the European Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) Order 1996.
(2) Subject to paragraph 8(1) of Schedule 2 to the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1978, this Order shall come into force on the fourteenth day after the day on which it is made.
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Scotland shall be divided into the eight European Parliamentary constituencies named in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order and each such constituency shall consist of the parliamentary constituencies specified opposite thereto in column 2 of that Schedule, being the parliamentary constituencies described in the Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) Order 1995.
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The European Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) Order 1984 and the European Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) (Miscellaneous Changes) Order 1992 are revoked.
N. H. Nicholls
Clerk of the Privy Council

SCHEDULE
Article 2


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Name Contents
Central Scotland The parliamentary constituencies of-
 Airdrie and Shotts
 Coatbridge and Chryston
 Cumbernauld and Kilsyth
 East Kilbride
 Falkirk East
 Falkirk West
 Hamilton North and Bellshill
 Hamilton South
 Kilmarnock and Loudoun
 Motherwell and Wishaw

Glasgow The parliamentary constituencies of-
 Glasgow Anniesland
 Glasgow Baillieston
 Glasgow Cathcart
 Glasgow Govan
 Glasgow Kelvin
 Glasgow Maryhill
 Glasgow Pollok
 Glasgow Rutherglen
 Glasgow Shettleston
 Glasgow Springburn

Highlands and Islands The parliamentary constituencies of-
 Argyll and Bute
 Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
 Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber
 Moray
 Orkney and Shetland
 Ross, Skye and Inverness West
 Western Isles

Lothians The parliamentary constituencies of-
 Edinburgh Central
 Edinburgh East and Musselburgh
 Edinburgh North and Leith
 Edinburgh Pentlands
 Edinburgh South
 Edinburgh West
 Linlithgow
 Livingston
 Midlothian

Mid Scotland and Fife The parliamentary constituencies of-
 Central Fife
 Dunfermline East
 Dunfermline West
 Kirkcaldy
 North East Fife
 North Tayside
 Ochil
 Perth
 Stirling

North East Scotland The parliamentary constituencies of-
 Aberdeen Central
 Aberdeen North
 Aberdeen South
 Angus
 Banff and Buchan
 Dundee East
 Dundee West
 Gordon
 West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
South of Scotland The parliamentary constituencies of-
 Ayr
 Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley
 Clydesdale
 Cunninghame South
 Dumfries
 East Lothian
 Galloway and Upper Nithsdale
 Roxburgh and Berwickshire
 Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale
West of Scotland The parliamentary constituencies of-
 Clydebank and Milngavie
 Cunninghame North
 Dumbarton
 Eastwood
 Greenock and Inverclyde
 Paisley North
 Paisley South
 Strathkelvin and Bearsden
 West Renfrewshire