Communities

27 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.