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Lochaber (from the Scottish Gaelic, Loch Abar) is now a Highland Council committee area based on a former local government district of the Highland region. It is in the western Highlands of Scotland, and includes North Lorne, Glen Coe, Nether Lochaber, the western part of the Rannoch Moor, the Road to the Isles, Moidart, Ardgour, Morvern, Sunart, Ardnamurchan, and the Small Isles (Rùm, Eigg, Muck and Canna).
There is also an earlier sense of Lochaber as a smaller area within the county of Inverness-shire, and a yet earlier sense of Lochaber as a distict covering an area similar to that of the district of the Highland region.
The district of the Highland region was created in 1975 under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, and defined as consiting of: Ardnamurchan, Ballachulish and Kinlochleven areas formerly within the county of Argyll; and Fort William and Locaber areas formerly within the county of Inverness-shire. The district was one of six in the Highland region, and local government functions were divided between district and regional councils.
The district council was abolished, and the area committee created, when the Highland region became a unitary council area in 1996, under the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994.
From 1975 to 1996, local government functions were divided between Lochaber district council and the Highland regional council. In 1996 the region became a unitary council area, and the district council was abolished.
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Area committee
- See also: Politics of the Highland council area
The committee area consists of 8 out of the 80 Highland Council wards. Each ward elects one councilor by the first past the post system of election.
The area is represented by seven independent councillors and one Liberal Democrat councillor.
External links
Highland Council (Comhairle na Gaidhealtachd) web sites: