District Council: (1) Urban, the name given to an urban sanitary authority, not being the council of a municipal borough, by the (English) Local Government Act, 1894 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 73), which Act abolished plural voting for, and any property qualification of, such authority; (2) Rural, the governing body under the same Act of every rural sanitary district, consisting of chairman and councillors, elected by the parishes or other areas. See (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (2 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), s. 31, which deals with the constitution of district councils. This Act consolidates with amendments the enactments relating to the subject.
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