Explanatory note

Section 27(3) and (4) of the Local Government Act 1972, as substituted by section 8 of the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994, contains provision for securing that where a community has been given a name in English or Welsh only, it will be given a name in the other language where there is a generally accepted alternative form of that name, or alternative name, in that language. For this purpose the principal council within whose area such community lies is required to take, before 1st October 1997, such steps as may be prescribed. These Regulations prescribe the steps which are to be taken (regulation 2).