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Parish Council
Matched in: Term Parish Council
Parish meeting
Matched in: Term Parish meeting
Local Government
law unions, petty sessional districts, county boroughs, and counties. See these titles respectively, and COUNTY COUNCIL; DISTRICT COUNCIL; PARISH COUNCIL; and BOROUGH COUNCIL. Local Government Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 41). The Act established county councils … Vict. c. 73). This Act established throughout England and Wales a parish meeting for every rural parish, a parish council for every rural parish having a population of 300 or upwards, and district councils. The (English) Local Government
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Vestry, or vestiary
and Local Govt. Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), and in rural parishes by the parish council or meeting (ibid.). As to the ecclesiastical functions in England (election of churchwardens), see Parochial Church Councils (Powers)
Sanitary authority
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 councils, and 'local' authority means the council of a borough; urban district … relation to the local authority of a borough means the borough, and 'parish' in relation to a common parish council acting for two or more grouped parishes means those parishes. As to Port Health Authorities, see QUARANTINE.
Local authority
for state services, Dictionary of Political Science, Joseph Dunner, 1965, p. 321. Means a municipal corporation, a municipal council, a Nagar Panchayat, an Industrial Township, a Cantonment Board, a Village Panchayat Constituted or Continued under any law … Local authority, includes panchayatiraj institutions, municipalities, a district board, cantonment board, town planning authority or Zila Parishad or any other body or authority, by whatever name called, for the time being invested by law, for
Churchwardens
Reeves or Ecclesi' Guardiani, the guardians or keepers of the church, and representatives of the body of the parish; but though in some sort ecclesiastical officers, they are always lay persons. They are a quasi corporation for … the church and churchyard and the care of the church goods have been transferred by the Parochail Church Councils (Powers) Measure, 1921 (11 & 12 Geo. 5, No. 1) to the Parochial Church Council, but the church
Burial authority
Parish community, the Common Council of City of London, and the Parish meeting of a Parish having no Parish council, whether separate or common, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 10, 4th Edn., Para 1010, p. 483
Parish Clerk
Matched in: Term Parish Clerk
Casting vote
Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 41), s. 75), and the chairman of a parish meeting, or Parish Council (Local Government Act, 1894 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 73), Sched. I., Pt. 2, r. 8, and Pt.
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