Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947

138 General provisions as to change of name and alteration of areas.

(1) An application or representation under this Part of this Act for the alteration of .the boundary of any burgh or parish, or for the formation of a new burgh, and any order or deliverance under this Part of this Act altering any such boundary or fixing the boundaries of an area that may be declared to be a burgh, shall describe the boundary as proposed to be altered or the boundary or boundaries as fixed, as the case may be, by reference to a map which shall be on a scale to be prescribed by the Secretary of State, and, if there is any discrepancy between the area delineated on the map and the description in the order or deliverance, the area delineated on the map shall be deemed to be correct and shall prevail.

(2) Any change of name of a county or burgh or parish, or any alteration of the boundary of a county or burgh or parish, or deliverance declaring an area to be a burgh, or any dissolution of a burgh under this Part of this Act, shall be published in such manner and intimated in such manner and to such persons as the Secretary of State may prescribe, and where the deliverance or order altering any such boundary or declaring a populous place to be a burgh refers to a map, such intimation shall be accompanied, in such cases as may be prescribed, by a copy of the map certified in such manner as the Secretary of State may prescribe, and in other cases either by such a certified copy or by a statement where the map or such a certified copy thereof may be inspected free of charge.