Subject to sections 15 and 16 of this Act, it shall be the duty of F5Boundaries Scotland, not less than F1eight nor more than F2twelve years after F31st April 1996 and thereafter at intervals of not less than F1eight nor more than F2twelve years from the submission of the last report of F9Boundaries Scotland on the previous review under this subsection, to review all local government areas for the purpose of considering whether to make such proposals in relation to all or any or any part of those areas as are authorised by section 13 of this Act and what proposals, if any, to make, and F9Boundaries Scotland shall formulate any such proposals accordingly.

Without prejudice to subsection (1) above, F6Boundaries Scotland may at any time, subject to sections 15 and 16 of this Act, review all or any or any part of the local government areas for the purpose of considering whether to make such proposals in relation to them as are authorised by section 13 of this Act, and what proposals, if any, to make, and F10Boundaries Scotland shall formulate any such proposals accordingly.

If F7Boundaries Scotland receive a request from a local authority or from any person that F12it should conduct a review under subsection (2) above with respect to any local government area in which the authority or person appears to F11Boundaries Scotland to have an interest, F11Boundaries Scotland shall consider the request.

In any case where the Secretary of State has made an order under section 1 of the M1New Towns (Scotland) Act 1968 designating any land as, or as an extension of, a new town and the area of the new town as so designated or so extended is not wholly comprised within one district, he shall, as soon as practicable after the order has become operative, send to F8Boundaries Scotland a notice stating that the order is in operation and specifying the districts within which that area is situated, and on receipt of such a notice it shall be the duty of F13Boundaries Scotland, subject to section 15(3) of this Act, to review the areas of those districts for the purpose of considering whether to make such proposals in relation to them as are authorised by section 13 of this Act and what proposals, if any, to make, and F13Boundaries Scotland shall formulate any such proposals accordingly.