The Moray Council is one of the 32 local government councils in Scotland covering the

Moray Moray () gd, Moireibh or ') is one of the 32 local government council areas of Scotland. It lies in the north-east of the country, with a coastline on the Moray Firth, and borders the council areas of Aberdeenshire and Highland. Between 1975 ...

area.

History

The Moray District Council had been created in 1975 under 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 ...

. It became one of the newly created single tier local authorities in 1996, under the

Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 The Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c. 39) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which created the current local government structure of 32 unitary authorities covering the whole of Scotland. It abolished the two-tie ...

.See als
''Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994'', Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) website

)

Council structure

The council's executive branch is headed by a Leader of the Council, who is the leader of the largest political grouping.

Wards

Buckie Buckie ( gd, Bucaidh) is a burgh town (defined as such in 1888) on the Moray Firth coast of Scotland. Historically in Banffshire, Buckie was the largest town in the county until the administrative area was abolished in 1975. The town is the ...

* Elgin City North * Elgin City South * Fochabers Lhanbryde *

Forres Forres (; gd, Farrais) is a town and former royal burgh in the north of Scotland on the Moray coast, approximately northeast of Inverness and west of Elgin. Forres has been a winner of the Scotland in Bloom award on several occasions. There ...

* Heldon & Laich * Keith & Cullen * Speyside Glenlivet

References

Local authorities of Scotland Politics of Moray Organisations based in Moray Elgin, Moray {{Scotland-gov-stub