South Australian Current Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1999 - SECT 13

13—Status of a council or change of various names

        (1)         A council may, by notice in the Gazette, after complying with the requirements of this section—

            (a)         change the council from a municipal council to a district council, or change the council from a district council to a municipal council;

            (b)         alter the name of—

                  (i)         the council;

                  (ii)         the area of the council;

            (c)         alter the name of a ward.

        (2)         A council must, before it publishes a notice, comply with the following requirements:

            (a)         the council must give public notice of the proposal;

            (b)         the notice must contain an invitation to interested persons to make written submissions to the council on the matter within a period specified by the council (being a period of at least 6 weeks);

            (ba)         publish a copy of the notice in a newspaper circulating within its area;

            (c)         the council must give any person who makes written submissions in response to an invitation under this section an opportunity to appear personally or by representative before the council or a council committee and to be heard on those submissions.

        (3)         A notice published by a council under this section has effect from the date or dates fixed in the notice or, if no date or dates are so fixed, as from the date of the publication of the notice.