The Local Government (Wales) (Alternative Community Names) (Prescribed Steps) Regulations 1996

• Citation: S.I. 1996/179
• Sections: 2

Section 1

These Regulations may be cited as the Local Government (Wales) (Alternative Community Names) (Prescribed Steps) Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 1st April 1996.

Section 2

Where section 27(4) of the Local Government Act 1972 applies in relation to a community, the following steps are prescribed as the steps which the principal council, within whose area the community lies, shall take, before 1st October 1997, with a view to securing that there is both an English and Welsh name for the community—

(a) the principal council shall determine, after consultation with the council for the community concerned (if there is such a council), what is to be the correct form of the alternative name or, as the case may be, the alternative form of name;

(b) as soon as practicable thereafter the principal council shall—

(i) if there is a council for the community concerned, notify that council of the details of its determination; and

(ii) publish in the community (and elsewhere if it considers this to be appropriate), in such manner as it considers appropriate, notice of the details of its determination.