LOCAL COUNCILS (STREET NAMING) REGULATIONS (streetnaming)

LOCAL COUNCILS (STREET NAMING)

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 363.10

LOCAL COUNCILS (STREET NAMING)

REGULATIONS

12th December, 1995

LEGAL NOTICE 176 of 1995, as amended by Legal Notices 208 of 1997, 255

of 2014, and 33 and 65 of 2016.

The title of these regulations is the Local Councils (Street

Naming) Regulations.

The naming or renaming of streets, other than arterial and

distributor roads determined by the Structure Plan as specified in article

33(2) of the Local Government Act, shall take place after the Local

Council of that locality submits its recommendation to the Minister

responsible for the Electoral Office who shall, prior to directing the

alteration of the name of any street or giving or approving a name to a

new street in terms of article 115 of the Code of Police Laws, refer such

recommendation to the appropriate Street Naming Committee for its

advice.

The naming or renaming of arterial and distributor roads

determined by the Structure Plan, national monuments, national parks or

gardens, industrial estates, ports, airports and other national territories,

establishments, buildings and items listed in the Fourth Schedule to the

Local Government Act, and as specified in article 33(2) of the same Act,

shall be directed by the Minister responsible for the Electoral Office in

terms of article 115 of the Code of Police Laws, who shall act on the

recommendation of the appropriate Street Naming Committee after such

committee consults all the Local Councils of the localities bordering on

the area to be so named.

(1) A Local Council or a Street Naming Committee, as the case

may be, shall not submit a recommendation for the alteration of the

name of any street within any locality or of any road or area specified in

regulation 3 unless a valid reason for such change subsists.

(2) The naming or renaming of streets, roads and any other

specified area after persons may only take place after their decease.