SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 2 Relaxation of controls over local and other authorities

The Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 65)

C130

1

In section 23 (change of name of region, islands area or district)

a

in subsection (1)—

i

the words “Subject to subsection (4) below,” shall cease to have effect; and

ii

for the words “a majority of the whole number of the members of the council” there shall be substituted the words “ not less than two-thirds of the members voting thereon ”; and

b

subsection (4) shall cease to have effect.

2

Sub-paragraph (1) above and, in so far as relating to section 23, Schedule 4 to this Act have no effect as regards a case where consent to a change of name has, before the coming into force of this paragraph, ben applied for, for the purposes of the said subsection (4).