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Ref No	LDC/TD/1/3/5/1
Title	Local Government Re-organisation
Date	1972-1974
Term	Local government
AdminHistory	In 1975 Scotland replaced its hierarchical system of local authorities, County Councils, counties of cities, large burghs and small burghs with a two tier system - Regional Councils and District Councils. Livingston, therefore, changed from being an area withing Midlothian County Council and West Lothian County Council and a number of town based councils, to being part of Lothian Regional Council and West Lothian District Council. This system, in turn, was replaced with a unitary system in 1996 with the creation of West Lothian Council.
AccessStatus	Open
Extent	16 files
ScopeandContent	16 administrative files relating to the re-organisation of local government in Scotland, replacing County Councils with Regional and District Authorities - the Corporation had a number of staff on working parties that assessed the possible responsibilities of the new local authorities.

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