Scottish councils

FOISA Schedule I includes:

21 A council constituted by section 2 of [the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c.39)]

A full list of local councils in Scotland can be found on WhatDoTheyKnow.com

Section 2 of the Act establishes a council for each local government area, each having a name of "The Council" with the addition of the name of the area. Under section 23 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, a Council can change the name of their area, and if they change it into Gaelic, can use "Comhairle" in place of "The Council". Schedule 1 Part 1 of the 1994 Act lists the following local government areas:

• City of Aberdeen
• Aberdeenshire
• Angus
• Argyll and Bute
• East Ayrshire
• North Ayrshire
• South Ayrshire
• The Borders, renamed 1995-04-25[1] to Scottish Borders
• Clackmannan
• Dumbarton and Clydebank
• Dumfries and Galloway
• East Dunbartonshire
• City of Dundee
• City of Edinburgh
• Falkirk
• Fife
• City of Glasgow
• Highland
• Inverclyde
• North Lanarkshire
• South Lanarkshire
• East Lothian
• Midlothian
• West Lothian
• Moray
• Orkney Islands
• Perthshire and Kinross
• East Renfrewshire
• Renfrewshire
• Shetland Islands
• Stirling
• Western Isles, renamed 1998-01-01[2] to Na h-Eileanan an Iar