
1 
This Order may be cited as the Lord-Lieutenants (Scotland) Order 1996 and shall come into force on 1st April 1996.
2 
In this Order—
(a) “new local government area” means a local government area created by section 1 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994;
(b) any reference to a county or burgh shall be construed as a reference to that county or, as the case may be, burgh, as it existed immediately before the passing of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973;
(c) any reference to a district, islands area, region, electoral division (except the electoral division of Nigg) or district ward shall be construed as a reference to that district, islands area, region, electoral division or, as the case may be, district ward as it exists immediately before the making of this Order;
(d) any reference to the electoral division of Nigg shall be construed as a reference to that electoral division as it existed immediately before the passing of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973;
(e) any reference in column 2 of Schedule 2 to an area which is named in column 1 of Schedule 1 shall be construed in accordance with column 2 of Schedule 1 and any reference to the City of Glasgow shall be construed as a reference to the new local government area of the City of Glasgow,and any reference in this Order to a numbered Schedule is to a Schedule bearing that number in this Order.
3 
For the purposes of the provisions of the Reserve Forces Act 1980 relating to lieutenancies:—
(a) Scotland is hereby divided into the areas named in column 1 of Schedule 1 which shall comprise the areas described in column 2 of that Schedule; and
(b) any deputy lieutenant named in column 1 of Schedule 2 holding office immediately before the date on which this Order is made shall (without prejudice to any power of removal or directing removal from any office) continue to hold office on and after that date as deputy lieutenant of the area or city specified in column 2 of that Schedule.
N.H. Nicholls
Clerk of the Privy Council

SCHEDULE 1
Article 3a


(1) (2)
Name Area
Aberdeenshire The county of Aberdeen except those parts of that county which form part of the new local government area of Aberdeen City
Angus The new local government area of Angus
Argyll and Bute The district of Argyll and Bute
Ayrshire and Arran The district of Kilmarnock and Loudoun, the district of Cumnock and Doon Valley, the district of Cunninghame and the district of Kyle and Carrick
Banffshire The county of Banff
Berwickshire The district of Berwickshire
Caithness The district of Caithness
Clackmannan The district of Clackmannan
Dumfries The district of Nithsdale and the district of Annandale and Eskdale
Dunbartonshire The district of Dumbarton, the district of Clydebank, the district of Bearsden and Milngavie, the district of Strathkelvin, the district of Cumbernauld and Kilsyth and the South Lenzie/Waterside district ward in electoral division 46 (Chryston) of Strathclyde region
East Lothian The district of East Lothian
Fife Fife region
Inverness The district of Lochaber, the district of Inverness and the district of Badenoch and Strathspey
Kincardineshire The county of Kincardine except the electoral division of Nigg
Lanarkshire The district of Monklands, the district of Motherwell, the district of Hamilton, the district of East Kilbride, the district of Clydesdale and the following electoral divisions of Strathclyde region, namely electoral division 46 (Chryston) (except South Lenzie/Waterside district ward), electoral division 37 (Rutherglen/Fernhill), electoral division 38 (Cambuslang/Halfway) and, in electoral division 35 (Kingspark/Toryglen), polling districts RU03, RU04, RU09 and RU18.
Midlothian The district of Midlothian
Moray The county of Moray except those parts of that county which, on the passing of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, formed part of Highland Region
Nairn The district of Nairn
Orkney Orkney Islands area
Perth and Kinross The new local government area of Perth and Kinross
Renfrewshire The district of Eastwood, the district of Renfrew and the district of Inverclyde
Ross and Cromarty The district of Ross and Cromarty and the district of Skye and Lochalsh
Roxburgh, Ettrick and Lauderdale The district of Roxburgh and the district of Ettrick and Lauderdale
Shetland Shetland Islands area
Stirling and Falkirk The district of Stirling and the district of Falkirk
Sutherland The district of Sutherland
The Stewartry of Kirkcudbright The district of Stewartry
Tweeddale The district of Tweeddale
West Lothian The district of West Lothian
Western Isles Western Isles Islands area
Wigtown The district of Wigtown
SCHEDULE 2
Article 3(b)


(1) (2)
Name Area
Lady Caroline Douglas Home Berwickshire
The Lord Glenarthur Aberdeenshire
Mr William Leggate Smith MC TD JP City of Glasgow
Colonel Adam Angus Fairrie Inverness
Mr Alan Devereux CBE Renfrewshire
Dr Helen M Laird OBE Renfrewshire
Colonel Charles H K Corsar of Cairniehill LVO OBE TD Midlothian
The Earl of Rosebery Midlothian
Mr David J Bowes-Lyon Midlothian
Mr Colin F Peters Midlothian
Group Captain George L Denholm DFC West Lothian
Mr James S Findlay West Lothian
Mrs Robert Schaw Miller West Lothian