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Changing of name of street.
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78.—(1) The appropriate authority may, with the consent of not less than four-sevenths of the ratepayers in a street, change the name of the street.
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(2) The power conferred by subsection (1) of this section shall be a reserved function.
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(3) The Minister may make regulations prescribing the procedure to be followed by the appropriate authority in ascertaining for the purposes of this section whether not less than four-sevenths of the ratepayers in a street consent to the name of the street being changed.
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(4) The appropriate authority may cause the name of a street to be displayed on a conspicuous part of any convenient building or other erection.
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(5) In this section—
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the word “street” includes part of a street and also the whole or part of any road, square, lane or other public place;
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the expression “the appropriate authority” means—
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(a) as respects a street in a county or other borough, the corporation of the borough,
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(b) as respects a street in an urban district, the council of the urban district,
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(c) as respects a street in a town, the commissioners of the town, and
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(d) as respects any other street, the council of the county in which the street is situate.
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