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The island groups of Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles are all currently regions of Scotland. Their constitutional status has periodically been discussed, for example during the Scottish independence referendum campaign. Currently, they are council areas with the same constitutional status as the other 29 local government areas.
The act made Orkney and Shetland exempt from any "dissolution of His Majesty's lands".In 1742 a further act of Parliament, the Orkney and Shetland Act 1741 (15 Geo. 2.c. 4), returned the estates to a later Earl of Morton, James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton, despite the original act of Parliament specifically stating that any such change was to be "considered null, void and of no effect".
The constituency is made up of the two northernmost island groups of Scotland, Orkney and Shetland. A constituency of this name has existed continuously since 1708. However, before 1918 the town of Kirkwall (the capital of Orkney) formed part of the Northern Burghs constituency. It is the most northerly of the 650 UK Parliament constituencies.
The Orkney constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, in 1999, to cover the Orkney Islands council area.The constituency is protected in law due to its geographical separation from other parts of Scotland, and therefore its boundaries are not subject to review.
Sick of being ignored by far-away politicians, officials on Scotland’s remote Orkney Islands are mulling a drastic solution: rejoining Norway, the Scandinavian country that gave them away as a ...
Before the Acts of Union 1707, the barons of the stewartry of Orkney and lordship of Shetland (formerly spelled Zetland) elected commissioners to represent them in the unicameral Parliament of Scotland and in the Convention of Estates. They were re-annexed to the Crown in 1669.
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