LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1999 - SECT 13
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1999 - SECT 13
13—Status of a council or change of various names
(1) A council may, by
notice in the Gazette, after complying with the requirements of this
section—
(a)
change the council from a municipal council to a district council, or change
the council from a district council to a municipal council;
(b)
alter the name of—
(i)
the council;
(c)
alter the name of a ward.
(2) A council must,
before it publishes a notice, comply with the following requirements:
(a) the
council must give public notice of the proposal;
(b) the
notice must contain an invitation to interested persons to make written
submissions to the council on the matter within a period specified by the
council (being a period of at least 6 weeks);
(ba)
publish a copy of the notice in a newspaper circulating within its area;
(c) the
council must give any person who makes written submissions in response to an
invitation under this section an opportunity to appear personally or by
representative before the council or a council committee and to be heard on
those submissions.
(3) A notice published
by a council under this section has effect from the date or dates fixed in the
notice or, if no date or dates are so fixed, as from the date of the
publication of the notice.