Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Pt. 2 applied (with modifications) (20.8.2004) by Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004 (asp 9), ss. 4(2), 17(2); S.S.I. 2004/351, art. 2 (with art. 3)
F1(1)...the council of a region, islands area or district may, by a resolution passed by [F2not less than two-thirds of the members voting thereon] at a meeting of the council specially convened for the purpose with notice of the object, change the name of the region, islands area or district.
(2)Notice of any change of name made under this section—
(a)shall be sent by the council concerned to the Secretary of State, to the Director General of the Ordnance Survey and to the Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages for Scotland; and
(b)shall be published in such manner as the Secretary of State may direct.
(3)A change of name made in pursuance of this section shall not affect any rights or obligations of any council, authority or person, or render defective any legal proceedings; and any legal proceedings may be commenced or continued as if there had been no change of name.
(4). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F3
Textual Amendments
F1Words "Subject to subsection (4) below" repealed by Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions)(Scotland) Act 1981 (c.23), s.25 Sch. 2 para. 30(1)(a)(i)(2), Sch 4 (by Sch 2 para 30(2) it is provided that para 30(1) and, in so far as relating to s,23, Sch 4 to that Act have no effect as regards a case where consent to a change of name has been applied for before 11.6.1981 for the purposes of s. 23(4)
F2Words substituted for words “a majority of the whole number of the members of the council” by Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1981 (c. 23), s. 25, Sch. 2 para. 30(1)(a)(ii)(2) (by Sch. 2 para. 30(2) it is provided that para. 30(1) has no effect as regards a case where consent to a change of name has been applied for before 11.6.1981 for the purposes of s. 23(4))
F3S. 23(4) repealed by Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1981 (c. 23), s. 25, Sch. 2 para. 30(1)(b)(2), Sch. 4 (by Sch. 2 para. 30(2) it is provided that para. 30(1) and, in so far as relating to s. 23, Sch. 4 to that Act have no effect as regards a case where consent to a change of name has been applied for before 11.6.1981 for the purposes of s. 23(4))
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C2S. 23 applied (temp. from 6.4.1995 until 1.4.1996) by S.I. 1995/789, art. 2, Sch. para. 3