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councillor or coun·ci·lor [kan-sə-lər] n : a member of a council coun·cil·lor·ship n ...
County Councils
County Councils. The elective bodies established by the Local Government Act, 1888 (c. 41), to manage certain specified administrative business of each county (see LOCAL GOVERNMENT), formerly managed by the justices of the peace (who are nominated by the Crown) in quarter sessions,and other administrative business mentioned in the Act, and consisting of 'the chairman, aldermen, and councillors.' The (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), consolidates with amendments the enactments relating to local authorities.The councillors are elected, for separate electroal divisions,' the qualification for elctors being that required under the Representation of the People Acts, and the qualification for being elected similar to that required for electionto office onany local authority. Ministers of religion are not disqulaified, and peers owing property in the county and persons registered as parliamentary voters in respect of the ownership of property in the county are qual...
Municipal corporation
Municipal corporation. A body of persons in a town having the powers of acting as one person, of holding and transmitting property, and of regulating the government of the town. Such corporations existed in the chief towns of England (as of other countries) from very early times, deriving their authority from 'incorporating' charters granted by the Crown.The Municipal Corporations Act,1835 (5 & 6 Wm. 4, c. 76), passed after local inquiries by Royal Commissioners, completely reorganized the constitution of these corporations, and abrogated all charters so far, but so far only, as inconsistent with it. This Act applied to 178 corporations named in the schedules thereto, and to 68 other corporations subsequently receiving a charter, a town to which it applied being styled a 'borough.'The (English) Act of 1835 was amended by a series of statutes passed from time to time, and consolidated by the (English) Municipal Corporations Act,1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 50), which, in turn (except for Lond...
Alderman
Alderman [ealdorman, Ang.-Sax., fr. eald, old, ealdor a parent]. Originally the word was synonymous with 'elder,' but was also used to designate an earl, and even a king. The word is now confined to the class of municipal officers in a borough next in order to the mayor. The (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1835 (5 & 6 Wm. 4, c. 76), which gave aldermen no special duties of any importance, enacted that they should be in number one-third of the number of the councillors, should remain six years in office (being twice the length of the councillors's period of office), and be elected by the councillors, but not necessarily from amongst the councillors; and this enactment is repeated by s. 14 of the (English) Consolidating Act of 1882; but the (English) Municipal Corporations Amendment Act, 1910, provides that aldermen shall not vote in the election of an alderman or mayor. As to number, qualification and term of office in boroughs, see (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Ge...
Parish Council
Parish Council. Established by the Local Govern-ment Act, 1894, s. 1 (see now Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), ss. 43-55), for every rural parish i.e., (every parish in a rural sanitary district) having a population of 300 or upwards, the county council having also power to group parishes under a common parish council, and being bound to establish a parish council if the parish meeting of a parish having a population of 100 or upwards so resolve, and having power to establish one with the consent of the parish meeting if the population be less than 100.The parish council is elected from among the parochial electors, or persons who have resided for twelve months in the parish or within three miles of it. The number of councillors is fixed by each county council within the limits of five and fifteen members. The term of office, which was by the Act of 1894 one year, was altered to three years by the Parish Councillors (Tenure of Office) Act, 1899, by which the councill...
Borough Council
Borough Council, the body representing the bur-gesses of a municipal corporation by virtue of the (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, and consisting of a mayor, alderman, and councillors, the councillors being elected by the burgesses, and the mayor and aldermen by the council. The councillors are elected for three years, one-third of their number going out annually. The aldermen are elected for six years, one half going out every third year. The mayor is elected for one year. The (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), has consolidated and amended the relevant sections of the 1882 Act, see ss. 17, et seq., of the 1933 Act; but it does not apply to London....
Privy
Privy [fr. priv', Fr.], having a participation in some Act, so as to be bound thereby, see the word in this sense in the statutory implied covenant in Part vi. Of the Second Sch. Of the Law of Property Act, 1925, and Woodhouse v. Jenkins, (1832) 9 Bing 441. Also a participation in interest or knowledge. See PRIVIES. Also sanitary accommodation. The Public Health Acts (see PUBLIC HEALTH) aim at securing proper sanitary accommodation for every house. See Tracey v. Pretty, (1901) 1 KB 444.Privy CouncilThe sovereign nominates privy councillors, and no patent or grant is necessary. The number of the Council is indefinite, and is dependent upon the royal will. It is summoned on a warning of forty-four hours, and never held without the presence of a Secretary of State; the junior delivers his opinion first, and the sovereign, if present, last; it is dissolved six months after the demise of the Crown, unless sooner determined by the successor.Privy councillors, on taking the necessary oaths, b...
Amotion
Amotion, a putting away, a removing, deprivation or ouster of possession. In municipal borough, a removal from his office of a councillor by his fellow-councillors, frequently exercised before the (English) Municipal Corporation Act, 1835, and not expressly abolished either by that Act or by the (English) Municipal Corporation Act, 1882. The power of amotion is implied or may be conferred by charter. Under the old law it has been said that offences justifying amotion must either be committed in the official character, infamous, or indictable (Kyd on Corporations); but habitual drunkenness was held a sufficient cause in Reg. v. Taylor, (1694) 3 Salk 231, where also a bye-law giving power to amove for just cause was held good; nor does there seem to be any means except amotion of getting rid of a clearly unfit councillor who refuses to resign. See Halsbury's L. of E., 2nd ed., Vol. 8, pp. 38 et seq....
Revising Barristers' Courts
Revising Barristers' Courts were courts presided over by a revising barrister which were held throughout the country each autumn to revise the list of voters for members of Parliament, for town councillors, and for county councillors. A revising barrister was appointed for one year, and was a member of the junior Bar of at least seven (originally three) years' standing. An appeal lay on a point of law to the High Court. These courts were finally abolished by the Representation of the People Act, 1918, which repealed the statutes under which they existed (Sch. VIII.)....
Mayor
Mayor [according to some, anciently written meyr, fr. the British miret, to keep, or fr. the Old English maier, power, not from the Latin major, although maire is the more probable derivation through the lingual corruption of 'major'] the annual chief magistrate of a municipal borough, elected by the councillors under s. 15 of the (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882 (45 & 46Vict. c. 50), from among the aldermen or councillors, or persons qualified to be such,' on the 9th November of every year (ibid., s. 61). Ss. 15 and 61 of the (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, have been repealed (except as London) by the (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), see ss. 18-20 of that Act. He receives little salary, if any. His principal duties are to act as returning officer at municipal elections, and in certain cases at parliamentary elections, as chairman of the meetings of the council, and as a justice of the peace for the borough...
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