Local Government Act, 1946
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Changing of name of locality. |
79.—(1) The appropriate authority may, with the consent of not less than four-sevenths of the ratepayers in a locality, change the name of the locality. | |
(2) The power conferred by subsection (1) of this section shall be a reserved function. | ||
(3) The proper officer of a body, which is in relation to a particular locality the appropriate authority, shall, if and when so directed by the said body, prepare and submit to the said body a list of the ratepayers in the said locality, and such list when adopted, with or without alteration, by the said body shall, for the purposes of this section, be the list of ratepayers in the said locality. | ||
(4) The Minister may make regulations prescribing the procedure to be followed by the appropriate authority in ascertaining whether not less than four-sevenths of the ratepayers in a locality consent to the name of the locality being changed. | ||
(5) In this section— | ||
the word “locality” means any area (not being a street within the meaning of section 78 of this Act) which is— | ||
(a) a portion of a county or other borough, urban district or town for which a separate name is in common use, or | ||
(b) a portion (other than an urban area, a town, a townland or a non-municipal town, within the meaning of section 77 of this Act) of a county for which a separate name is in common use; | ||
the expression.“the appropriate authority” means— | ||
(a) as respects a locality in a county or other borough, the corporation of the borough, | ||
(b) as respects a locality in an urban district, the council of the urban district, | ||
(c) as respects a locality in a town, the commissioners of the town, | ||
(d) as respects a locality in a county, the council of the county; | ||
the expression “the proper officer” means— | ||
(a) as respects the corporation of a county or other borough, the town clerk of the borough, | ||
(b) as respects the council of an urban district, the clerk of the council, | ||
(c) as respects the commissioners of a town, the clerk of the commissioners, | ||
(d) as respects the council of a county, the secretary of the council. |