Tayside ( gd, Taobh Tatha) was one of the nine
regions used for
local government in Scotland from 15 May 1975 to 31 March 1996. The region was named for the
River Tay
The River Tay ( gd, Tatha, ; probably from the conjectured Brythonic ''Tausa'', possibly meaning 'silent one' or 'strong one' or, simply, 'flowing') is the longest river in Scotland and the seventh-longest in Great Britain. The Tay originates i ...
.
It was created by the
Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973
The Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 65) is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom that altered local government in Scotland on 16 May 1975.
The Act followed and largely implemented the report of the Royal Commission on Local Gove ...
, following recommendations made by the
1969 Wheatley Report which attempted to replace the mishmash of
counties,
cities,
burghs
A burgh is an autonomous municipal corporation in Scotland and Northern England, usually a city, town, or toun in Scots. This type of administrative division existed from the 12th century, when King David I created the first royal burghs. Bur ...
and
districts
A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions ...
, with a uniform two-tier system of regional and district councils. Since the
Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994, the former Tayside has been divided into the council areas of
Angus, the
City of Dundee and
Perth and Kinross
Perth and Kinross ( sco, Pairth an Kinross; gd, Peairt agus Ceann Rois) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland and a Lieutenancy Area. It borders onto the Aberdeenshire, Angus, Argyll and Bute, Clackmannanshire, Dundee, Fife, Highland ...
, which had previously been the region's districts.
Tayside Regional Council directly operated local bus services in the City of Dundee from 1975 until 1986, when
bus deregulation under terms of the
Transport Act 1985 was implemented. The restructured Tayside Buses became employee-owned in 1991, was sold to
National Express in 1997, and today trades as
Xplore Dundee.
Continued use
Tayside continues to have a
joint electoral, valuation, and health board. It retained its
police
The police are a Law enforcement organization, constituted body of Law enforcement officer, persons empowered by a State (polity), state, with the aim to law enforcement, enforce the law, to ensure the safety, health and possessions of citize ...
and
fire services until they were merged, on 1 April 2013, into bodies known as
Police Scotland
Police Scotland ( gd, Poileas Alba), officially the Police Service of Scotland (), is the national police force of Scotland. It was formed in 2013, through the merging of eight regional police forces in Scotland, as well as the specialist service ...
and the
Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, which cover the whole of Scotland. Provision of healthcare across the region also continues via
NHS Tayside.
Angus Council,
Dundee City Council and
Perth and Kinross Council formed Tayside Contracts as their commercial arm and to provide
shared services
Shared services is the provision of a service by one part of an organization or group, where that service had previously been found, in more than one part of the organization or group. Thus the funding and resourcing of the service is shared and th ...
, such as road and housing maintenance, winter maintenance (snow clearing and gritting), catering and cleaning services across the former Tayside area. Tayside Contracts services are open to the public and all profits from the company are equally fed back into each of the three councils to bolster revenue to the local authorities to provide cash for services as a boost to central government and
council tax income.
Electoral history
References
External links
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Regions of Scotland
1975 establishments in Scotland
1996 disestablishments in Scotland
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