Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994

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The Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (1994 c. 39) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which created the current local government structure of 32 unitary authorities covering the whole of Scotland.

It abolished the two-tier structure of regions and districts created by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 which had previously covered Scotland except for the islands council areas.

The Act came into effect on 1 April 1996.

1 Initial proposals
2 New local government areas
3 Notes and references
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Initial proposals

The Secretary of State for Scotland, Ian Lang outlined proposed areas in a statement to the Commons on July 8, 1993. <ref>Parliamentary Debates, House of Commons, July 8 1993, column 489</ref> <ref>Councils in Scotland to face shake-up, The Times. 9 July 1993.</ref> This outlined 25 unitary authorities (apart from the 3 Island Areas), as follows

[edit] New local government areas

The act defined new local government council areas. A negative may be inferred from the wording:

No new council area was to be created so as to straddle boundaries between regions established under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973.

Also, islands council areas had been unitary council areas since implementation of the 1973 act, and the 1994 act would not affect their boundaries.

The table below is designed to show how implementation of the 1994 act affected other boundaries, region by region. (Names for some of the new council areas have changed since the act was passed.)

Region or islands council area	New unitary council areas	Districts incorporated or partly incorporated
Borders	Borders Became Scottish Borders	Berwickshire Ettrick and Lauderdale Roxburgh Tweeddale
Central	Clackmannan Became Clackmannanshire	Clackmannan
	Falkirk	Falkirk
	Stirling	Stirling
Dumfries and Galloway	Dumfries and Galloway	Annandale and Eskdale Nithsdale Stewartry Wigtown
Fife	Fife	Dunfermline Kirkcaldy North-East Fife
Grampian	Aberdeenshire	Banff and Buchan Gordon Kincardine and Deeside
	City of Aberdeen Became Aberdeen City	City of Aberdeen
	Moray	Moray
Highland	Highland	Badenoch and Strathspey Caithness Inverness Lochaber Nairn Ross and Cromarty Skye and Lochalsh Sutherland
Lothian	East Lothian	East Lothian
	City of Edinburgh	City of Edinburgh
	Midlothian	Midlothian
	West Lothian	West Lothian
Orkney	Orkney Islands	Not applicable
Shetland	Shetland Islands	Not applicable
Strathclyde	Argyll and Bute	Argyll and Bute A Helensburgh area and part of a Vale of Leven area of Dunbarton
	Dumbarton and Clydebank Became West Dunbartonshire	Dumbarton minus: a Helensburgh area; and part of a Vale of Leven area Clydebank
	East Ayrshire	Kilmarnock and Loudoun Cumnock and Doon Valley
	East Dunbartonshire	Bearsden and Milngavie Strathkelvin minus: part of a Chryston area
	East Renfrewshire	Eastwood A Barrhead area of Renfrew
	City of Glasgow Became Glasgow City	City of Glasgow minus: a Rutherglen and Fernhill area; a Cambuslang and Halfway area; and part of a King's Park and Toryglen area
	Inverclyde	Inverclyde
	North Ayrshire	Cunninghame
	North Lanarkshire	Cumbernauld and Kilsyth Motherwell Monklands Part of a Chryston area of Strathkelvin
	Renfrewshire	Renfrew minus a Barrhead area
	South Ayrshire	Kyle and Carrick
	South Lanarkshire	Clydesdale Hamilton East Kilbride A Rutherglen and Fernhill area, a Cambuslang and Halfway area, and part of a King's Park and Toryglen area of City of Glasgow
Tayside	Angus	Angus A Monifieth area and part of a Sidlaw area of City of Dundee
	City of Dundee Became Dundee City	City of Dundee minus: a Monifieth area; and part of a Sidlaw area
	Perth and Kinross	Perth and Kinross Part of a Sidlaw area of City of Dundee
Western Isles	Western Isles Became Na h-Eileanan Siar	Not applicable