SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 2S Relaxation of controls over local and other authorities

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

30(1)In section 23 (change of name of region, islands area or district)S

(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).

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1The text of ss. 1, 5–8, 11, 12, 16, 24–28, 33, 36, 37(1)(2)(3)(4), 38(1), 40, 41, Sch. 1 (a)(b)(c)(i)(ii)(iii)(d)(i)(ii)(e), Sch. 2 paras. 1–10, 12–14, 16–25, 27–34, 37–42, Sch. 3 paras. 2–7, 12–20, 22–24, 26, 28, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37, 38, 39 and Sch. 4 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991