unitary authority
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type of local government body that covers two levels of government
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- form of government
- Subclass of
- local authority
- Country
- United Kingdom
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- OpenStreetMap tag
- designation=unitary_authority
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Encyclopedic overview
A unitary authority is a type of local authority in New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Unitary authorities are responsible for all local government functions within their areas, or perform additional functions that elsewhere are usually performed by multiple tiers of local government.
Typically, unitary authorities cover towns or cities that are large enough to function independently of a council or other authority. An authority can be a unit of a county or combined authority.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “unitary authority” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.