# Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1981, Paragraph 30


(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).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/23/schedule/2/paragraph/30 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-miscellaneous-provisions-scotland-act-1981/schedule-2/paragraph-30
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