On or after 1st April 2023 the North Yorkshire Council is the sole principal authority for North Yorkshire.

For the purposes of enactments relating to local government, there shall be a new district, whose area shall be co-terminous with North Yorkshire; and the name of that new district is North Yorkshire.

If the North Yorkshire Council passes a resolution that the word “county” should be omitted from its name, its name shall be “The North Yorkshire Council” and subsection (3) of section 2 of the 1972 Act (constitution of principal councils in England) shall cease to apply so far as it prescribes the name of the council.