E1 Part II Local Government Areas and Authorities in Wales
Communities
F127 Community meetings and continuation of community councils.
1
A meeting of the local government electors for a community (“a community meeting”) may be convened for the purpose of discussing community affairs and exercising any functions conferred by any enactment on such meetings.
2
The community councils in existence on 1st April 1996 shall, subject to any provision made under this Act, continue in existence after that date.
3
Subsection (4) below applies where—
a
the name of a community was given only in its English form or only in its Welsh form; but
b
there is a generally accepted alternative form of that name, or alternative name, in Welsh or (as the case may be) in English.
4
The principal council within whose area the community lies shall, before 1st October 1997, take such steps as may be prescribed with a view to securing that there is both an English and a Welsh name for the community.
Part II (ss. 20-38) extends to Wales only: see s. 38