- area
means the area of a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc.
- area tourist board
means a board established by virtue of an order made or, as the case may be, approved under section 172, 173 or 174 of the Local Government etc.
- assessor
means an assessor appointed under section 116 of the 1973 Act (appointment of assessors);
- authority
means a local authority, a joint board..., the Strathclyde Passenger Transport Authority or a Transport Partnership created by order under section 1 of the Transport (Scotland) Act 2005.
- council
means a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc.
- electoral division
means an electoral division for regional council elections as at 5th May 1994;
- enactment
means any enactment or instrument made under an enactment, whether passed or made before or after the coming into force of this section;
- existing authorities
means the authorities all or part of whose area is included in the area of the new authority whose council is being elected.
- existing authority
means a regional or district council, the Central Scotland Water Development Board,...... and, for the purposes of the matters mentioned in subsection (5) above, includes an islands council.
- existing local authority
means a regional, islands or district council;
- existing valuation lists
means the lists maintained under the said section 84 of the 1992 Act on the day on which this section comes into force in relation to the area of any regional council whose area includes any part of the area of the new authority;
- existing valuation rolls
means the rolls made up under subsection (1) of section 1 of the 1975 Act (valuation roll and revaluation) and in force by virtue of subsection (2) of that section on the day on which this section comes into force in relation to the area of any existing valuation authority whose area includes any part of the area of the new valuation authority.
- financial year
has the meaning assigned to it by section 96(5) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973. 24B 1 For the purposes of section 24 of this Act, lands and heritages shall be treated as unoccupied if, apart from this section, they would fall to be treated as occupied by reason only of there being kept on the lands and heritages plant, machinery or equipment— a which was last used on the lands and heritages when they were last in use;
- fish counter
means any weir or other structure in inland waters primarily used for the purpose of counting fish;
- inland waters
has the same meaning as in section 24(1) of the Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries (Protection) (Scotland) Act 1951.
- local assessor
means the assessor appointed under section 27 (appointment of assessors) of the Local Government etc.
- local authority
means a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc.
- local statutory provision
includes— (a) a provision of a public general Act passed with respect only to the whole or part of an existing local government area;
- net-zero emissions target
has the meaning given by section A1(1) of the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009.
- new authority
means any of the authorities constituted under section 2 of this Act (other than Orkney Islands, Shetland Islands or Western Isles), a residuary body and a joint board;
- participate
means participation in any one or more of the following ways— i a local authority or any person representative of a local authority being a member of the area tourist board whose area includes the area of that authority;
- planning authority
has the meaning given ”;
- planning permission
means permission under Part III of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972. 12C 1 Where the Secretary of State considers that it is necessary or expedient as a result of, or in connection with, the establishment of new local government areas on 1st April 1996 that— a a special road which the Secretary of State is authorised to provide by virtue of a scheme under section 7 of this Act (a “section 7 scheme”) should be provided by a local roads authority;
- polling district
means a polling district for regional council elections as at 1st December 1993;
- prescribed
means prescribed by the Secretary of State by regulations made under this subsection by statutory instrument. 5 An instrument containing regulations under subsection (4) above shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament. 37B 1 No information shall be included in a register maintained under section 37A of this Act if and so long as, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, the inclusion in the register of that information, or of information of that description, would be contrary to the interests of national security. 2 The Secretary of State may, for the purposes of subsection (1) above, give to a sewerage authority directions— a specifying information, or descriptions of information, to be excluded from the register;
- property
includes property held on trust to which section 16 of this Act applies.
- public services
means such services provided by the authority as may be prescribed.
- records
includes charters, deeds, minutes, accounts and other documents, and any other records, of whatever form and in whatever medium, which convey information, but does not include records which are the property of the Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages for Scotland.
- relevant authority
means, in relation to any financial year prior to and including the financial year 1995-96, a regional or islands council and, in relation to financial years after that year, a local authority.”
- relevant year of election
means, in relation to a local government area, the first year of ordinary election of councillors for that area occurring after the making of an order constituting the new electoral wards of that local government area in consequence of a review under Schedule 5 to the 1973 Act.
- road
has the same meaning as in the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984.
- roads authority
has the same meaning as in the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984.”
- statutory body corporate
means any body corporate established by or under a statute relating to Scotland other than such bodies, or such classes of such bodies, as may be specified by the Secretary of State in an order made by statutory instrument. 2B Nothing in subsection (2) above shall apply to any burgh register of sasines or to any book or public record relating thereto.”
- statutory borrowing power
means any power to borrow money conferred on a local authority by or under any enactment, but does not include the power of a council to borrow for the purposes of the common good;
- statutory provision
means a provision, whether of a general or of a special nature, contained in, or in any document made or issued under, any Act and irrespective of whether the Act itself is of a general or of a special nature;
- statutory undertaking
means any railway, light railway, tramway, road transport, water transport, canal, inland navigation, ferry, dock, harbour, pier or lighthouse undertaking, any market undertaking or any undertaking for the supply of electricity, gas, hydraulic power or district heating.
- successor authority
means any council constituted under section 2 of this Act (other than the councils for Orkney Islands, Shetland Islands and Western Isles) in whose area the proposed order will have effect.
- the 1972 Act
means the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972;
- the 1992 Act
means the Local Government Finance Act 1992, and expressions used in this Part of this Act and in the 1973 Act shall have the same meanings in this Part as in that Act.
- the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland
means the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland, established by section 1 of the Tribunals (Scotland) Act 2014;
- traffic authority
has the meaning given by section 121A of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984.
- traffic sign
has the meaning given by section 64(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984.
- trustee securities
means any security in which trustees are for the time being authorised by law to invest trust money.”
- valuation list
has the same meaning as in the 1992 Act.
- ward
means a ward for district council elections as at 7th May 1992.