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County Councils
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Local Government
PARISH COUNCIL; and BOROUGH COUNCIL. Local Government Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 41). The Act established county councils throughout England and Wales, and has been amended and extended by many other Acts. Transfer of Imperial Powers … England and Wales, and has been amended and extended by many other Acts. Transfer of Imperial Powers to County Councils.--The (English) Local Government (Transfer of Powers) Act, 1903 (3 Edw. 7, c. 15), though permissive only, extended general,
Circuits
of Birmingham. (4) South-Eastern Circuit: Counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Huntingdon, Cambridge, Hertford, Essex, Kent, Surrey, and Sussex; and county of the city of Norfolk. (5) Oxford Circuit: Counties of Berks, Oxford, Worcester, Stafford, Salop, Hereford, Monmouth, Gloucester; … cause untried at any place on any circuit.' The following were the circuits as altered by Order in Council made pursuant to 26 & 27 Vict. c. 122, viz.: (1) Northern; (2) Home; (3) Western; (4) Oxford;
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London
Act, 1855 (18 & 19 Vict. c. 120), the powers of which board are transferred to the London County Council, the number of councillors consisting of double the number of parliamentary members. The general government of London … qualifications were, by the Local Government Act, 1894, assimilated to those obtaining in the case of the district councils created by that Act. The London Government Act, 1899 (62 & 63 Vict. c. 14), substitutes twenty-eight, boroughs
Local authority
(8 Edw. 7, c. 43), defines (s. 2 (a)) a 'local authority' as meaning:- A council of a county, county borough, borough (including a metropolitan borough), urban district, rural district, or parish, and a joint committee or … district, rural district, or parish, and a joint committee or joint board of any two or more such councils to which any of the powers or duties of the appointing councils may have been transferred or delegated
Municipal corporation
most of the larger boroughs there is a separate commission of the peace, excluding the jurisdiction of the county justices, and a separate Court of Quarter Sessions, presided over by a 'recorder,' having the same jurisdiction in … under the control of a municipal corporation, consisting of the 'mayor, aldermen, and burgesses,' and acting through a; council' elected by the burgesses, i.e., persons entitled to vote under the (English) Representation of the People Acts, 1918
Sanitary authority
in an administrative county, as respects certain matters, the county council, and as respects all other matters, the councils of county districts without prejudice to the exercise by a parish council of any powers conferred on such … the authorities for the purposes of those Acts. Under the Act of 1936 they are (i) in a county borough, the council of the borough, (ii) in an administrative county, as respects certain matters, the county council,
Sessions of the peace
31 for the Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1879. As to the administrative business of quarter sessions, transferred to the county councils by the (English) Local Government Act, 1888, see COUNTY COUNCIL.
By-laws, or bye-laws
approved by the chancellor, treasurer, and chief justices, or the judges of assize, 19 Hen. 7, c. 7. County Councils and Borough Councils under Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51) (English) s. 249;
London, Port of
shall be ten, appointed as follows:- By the Admiralty.....1 By the Ministry of Transport ..2 By the London County Council (being Members of the Council..2 By the London County Council (not being Members of the Council)..2 By … be ten, appointed as follows:- By the Admiralty.....1 By the Ministry of Transport ..2 By the London County Council (being Members of the Council..2 By the London County Council (not being Members of the Council)..2 By the
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