Editing Hawick (section)

==Governance==
[[File:Town Hall High Street Hawick (geograph 6288490).jpg|thumb|right|190px|[[Hawick Town Hall]], High Street]]
Local government services for Hawick are provided by [[Scottish Borders Council]]. There is also a [[community council]] covering the town.<ref>{{cite web |title=Community councils - Hawick |url=https://www.scotborders.gov.uk/directory_record/7711/hawick |website=Scottish Borders Council |access-date=23 December 2022}}</ref>

Hawick was designated a [[burgh of regality]] in 1669 and became a [[police burgh]] in 1868.<ref>{{cite web |title=Hawick Burgh |url=https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10359910#tab02 |website=A Vision of Britain through Time |publisher=GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth |access-date=23 December 2022}}</ref> [[Hawick Town Hall]] on the High Street was built in 1886, designed by [[James Campbell Walker]] in the [[Scottish baronial architecture|Scottish baronial style]].<ref>{{Historic Environment Scotland|num=LB34634|desc= 34-44 High Street (Even numbers), Hawick Town Hall |access-date=10 September 2021}}</ref>

When elected county councils were created in 1890 under the [[Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889]], the burgh of Hawick was deemed capable of running its own affairs and so was excluded from the jurisdiction of Roxburghshire County Council.<ref>[[Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889]], sections 8 and 105</ref> Further local government reform in 1930 brought the burgh of Hawick within the area controlled by the county council, with the town being reclassified as a [[small burgh]], ceding most of its functions to the county council.<ref>{{cite legislation UK|type=act|act=Local Government (Scotland) Act 1929|year=1929|chapter=25|accessdate=23 December 2022}}</ref>

In 1975 local government across Scotland was reformed under the [[Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973]]. The burghs and counties were abolished as administrative areas, replaced with a two-tier system of upper-tier regions and lower-tier districts. Hawick therefore became part of the [[Roxburgh (district)|Roxburgh]] district within the [[Scottish Borders|Borders]] region.<ref>{{cite legislation UK|type=act|act=Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973|year=1973|chapter=65|accessdate=23 December 2022}}</ref> Roxburgh District Council used Hawick Town Hall as its headquarters.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=23569|page=999|date=29 April 1994|city=e}}</ref> Further local government reform in 1996 abolished the regions and districts, since when Hawick has been administered by Scottish Borders Council.<ref>{{cite legislation UK|type=act|act=Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994|year=1994|chapter=39|accessdate=16 December 2022}}</ref>