Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947

1 (1) A county council shall in every year hold such meetings of the council as are required for the purpose of complying with this Act or any other enactment or any statutory order and such other meetings as are considered necessary for the transaction of the general business of the council.

(2) A meeting of the council shall be held in the year of the election on Tuesday fourteen days after the day of election, or on such other day within three weeks after the day of election as the council have, prior to the election by standing order or otherwise, determined, and in other years on such day in the month of November or December as the council determine. The said meeting held in the year of election may for the purposes of this Act and of any other enactment be referred to as the first meeting of the county council after the election of county councillors.

(3) Meetings of the county council shall be held in the case of the first meeting after the election at twelve noon or at such other hour as the council have, prior to the election by standing order or otherwise determined, and in the case of other meetings at such hour and on such dates as the council may by standing order or otherwise fix, or if no hour is so fixed at twelve noon.

(4) Meetings of a county council shall be held at such place either within or without the county as the council may direct.