Section 12A: Parishes: alternative styles

Local Government Act 1972 · 1972 c.70

Part I: Local Government Areas and Authorities in England

12A(1)

This section applies to a parish which is not grouped with any other parish.

12A(2)

The appropriate parish authority may resolve that the parish shall have one of the alternative styles.

12A(3)

If the parish has an alternative style, the appropriate parish authority may resolve that the parish shall cease to have that style.

12A(4)

A single resolution may provide for a parish—

(a) to cease to have an alternative style, and

(b) to have another of the alternative styles instead.

12A(5)

As soon as practicable after passing a resolution under this section, the appropriate parish authority must give notice of the change of style to all of the following—

(a) the Secretary of State;

(b) the Local Government Boundary Commission for England;

(c) the Office of National Statistics;

(d) the Director General of the Ordnance Survey;

(e) any district council, county council or London borough council within whose area the parish lies.

12A(6)

In this section "appropriate parish authority" means—

(a) the parish council, or

(b) if the parish does not have a parish council, the parish meeting.

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