Administrative Counties

Administrative Counties. The divisions of the counties of York, Lincoln, Sussex, Suffolk, and Northampton, the county of London, the sixty-one 'county boroughs,' and the other counties of England and Wales, except such parts of them as are not included in London or the country boroughs, form separate 'administrative counties' of themselves for the purpose of managing, through county councils, the administrative business (see COUNTY COUNCIL) of their respective areas. Local Government Act, 1933, s. 1.