LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1995 - SECT 2.4
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1995 - SECT 2.4
2.4 . District to be designated city, town or shire
(1) An order under
section 2.1 declaring an area of the State to be a district is to include an
order designating the district a city, town or shire.
(2) The Governor may,
by order, change the designation of a district.
(3) A district can
only be designated a city if —
(a) the
district is in the metropolitan area and has more than 30 000 inhabitants more
than half of whom live in an urban area; or
(b) the
district, if it is not in the metropolitan area, has more than 20 000
inhabitants more than half of whom live in an urban area.
(4) A district can
only be designated a town if more than half of its inhabitants live in an
urban area.
(5) A district that is
not designated a city or a town is to be designated a shire.
(6) The number of
inhabitants of a district at a particular time is to be taken as that
established by the Government Statistician appointed under the
Statistics Act 1907 according to the information then available to that
person.
(7) Despite any change
in the number or distribution of a district’s inhabitants, the
designation of the district continues to apply until it is changed under this
section.