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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.