The Local Government Ac, 1888: With the Incorportated Provisions of the ...

councils other than those set out in the First and Second Parts.
It was found, however, that this would add greatly to the bulk of
the volume, and the Authors have therefore, for the present,
limited the Third Part as above stated.

Care has been taken to note every decided case down to the

date of publication, and no pains have been spared to render the

Index and Tables of Statutes and Cases complete and reliable.

A. M.

T. R. C. D.

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PART I. COUNTY COUNCILS.

Constitution of County Council.

PART

I.

Local Government (England and Wales) Act, 1888.

(51 & 52 VICT. CAP. 41.)

SECTION

1. Establishment of county council

2. Composition and election of council and position of chairman

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Powers of County Council.

3. Transfer to county council of administrative business of quarter

sessions

4. Transfer of certain powers under local Acts

5. Appointment of coroners by county council

6. Power of council as to bridges

7. Transfer to county council of certain powers of justices out of

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session

8. Reservation of business to quarter sessions

9. Powers as to police

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10. Transfer to county council of powers of certain Government

departments and other authorities

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16. Power of county council to make bye-laws ...

17. Power of county councils to appoint medical officer of health

18. Qualification of medical officers of health

19. Power of county council as to report of medical officer of health

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11. Entire maintenance of main roads by county council

12. Roads and tolls in Isle of Wight

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13. Adaptation of Act to South Wales roads

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14. Power to county council to enforce provisions of 39 & 40 Vict. c. 75

15. Council to have power to oppose Bills in Parliament

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Financial Relations between Exchequer and County, and Contributions
by County for Costs of Union Officers.

SECTION

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20. Payment to county council of proceeds of duties on local taxation

licences

21. Grant to county council of portion of probate duty

22. Distribution of probate duty grant

23. Application of duties on local taxation licences and probate duty

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grant...

24. Payments by county council in substitution for annual local grants

out of exchequer in aid of local rates

25. As to Secretary of State's power respecting efficiency of police

26. Grant by county council towards costs of officers of union ...

27. Supplemental provisions as to local taxation account and exchequer

contribution account

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General Provisions as to Transfer.

28. General provisions as to powers transferred to county council

29. Summary proceeding for determination of questions as to transfer

of powers

30. Standing joint committee of quarter sessions and county council

for the purpose of police, clerk of the peace, officers, etc.

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Application of Act to Boroughs.

31. Certain large boroughs named in the schedule to be county

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boroughs

32. Adjustment of financial relations between counties and county

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boroughs

33. Provisions as to police and rateable value in county boroughs

34. Application of Act with modifications to county boroughs...

35. Application of Act to larger quarter sessions boroughs not county

counties (sic.)

36. General application of Act to boroughs with separate commission

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of the peace

37. Application of Act to quarter sessions boroughs hereafter created

38. Application of Act to smaller quarter sessions boroughs with

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population under 10,000
39. Application of Act to all boroughs with population under 10,000...

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PART II.-APPLICATION OF ACT TO BOROUGHS, THE METROPOLIS, AND

CERTAIN SPECIAL COUNTIES.

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Application of Act to Metropolis.

40. Application of Act to Metropolis as county of London

41. Position of City of London, and application of Highway Acts

42. Arrangements for paid chairman and sitting of quarter sessions for

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London

43. Grant by London County Council to poor law unions

44. Transfer of duties under 32 & 33 Vict. c. 67, of clerk of metropolitan

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asylum managers

45. Adjustment of law as to slaughter-houses in the Metropolis

Application of Act to Special Counties and to Liberties.

SECTION

46. Application of Act to certain special counties

47. Saving for Manchester Assize Courts Act, 1858

48. Merger of liberties in county

49. Power to make Provisional Order for Scilly Islands

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PART III.-BOUNDARIES.

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50. Boundary of county for first election ...

51. Directions for constitution of electoral divisions

52. Provisional order as respects boroughs and urban sanitary districts

in same area ...

53. Considerations of alterations of boundaries by county councils

54. Future alterations of boundaries

55. Contents of provisional order amalgamating two county boroughs

56. Procedure for charter of new borough...

57. Future alteration of county districts and parishes and wards, and

future establishment of urban districts

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58. Additional power of Local Government Board as to unions

59. Supplemental provisions as to alteration of areas

60. General provision as to alteration of boundaries

61. Appointment of Commissioners

62. Adjustment of property and liabilities

63. Arbitration by Local Government Board

Local Financial Year and Annual Budget.

73. Fixing a local financial year and consequent adjustments

74. Annual budget of county councils

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PART IV.-FINANCE.

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Property Funds and Costs of County Council.

64. Transfer of county property and liabilities

65. Power to acquire lands ...

66. Costs of justices to be payable out of county fund

67. Adjustment of law as respects costs ordered by quarter sessions or

justices to be paid

68. Funds of county council

69. Borrowing by county council

70. Issue of county stock

71. Audit of accounts of county council

72. Adaptation of Part V. of 45 & 46 Vict. c. 50, as to corporate

property and liabilities

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PART V.-SUPPLEMENTAL.

Application of Acts.

75. Application of 45 & 46 Vict. c. 50, to county councils and this Act 141 -

76. Amendment of 51 & 52 Vict. c. 10

77. Residential qualification of county electors in administrative county

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of London

78. Construction of Acts referring to business transferred

Proceedings of Councils and Committees.

SECTION

79. Incorporation of county council

80. Payments out of fund and finance committee of county council

81. Appointment of joint committees.
82. Proceedings of committees

85. Regulations for bicycles, etc.

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Officers.

83 Clerk of the peace and of county council

84. Appointment of the justices' clerks and clerks of committees

Regulations for Bicycles, etc.

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90. Special provisions as to adjustment in the metropolis
91. Adjustment as regards the Militia Acts

Adaptation of Acts.

86. Adaptation of Lunatic Asylum Acts

87. Application of provisions of 38 & 39 Vict. c. 55, as to local inquiries
and provisional orders

88. Adaptation of Act to metropolis

89. Adjustment of law as regards courts, juries, sittings, and legal
proceedings in Middlesex and London

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99. Definition of "written"...

100. Interpretation of certain terms in the Act

Savings.

92. Saving for votes at any Parliamentary elections

93. Saving for Metropolitan and City Police.

94. Saving for Metropolitan Common Poor Fund

95. Saving as to Middlesex, Surrey, and Kent

96. Saving for Middlesex Land Registry

97. Saving as to liability for main roads

98. Saving for powers of Commissioners of Inland Revenue and

Customs

PART VI. TRANSITORY PROVISIONS.

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General Provision as to First Elections.

First Election of County Councillors.

103. First election of county councillors

104. Retirement of first county councillors
105. Preliminary action of county councillors as provisional council
106. First proceedings of provisional council.

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107. Casual vacancies at first elections

108. Power of Local Government Board to remedy defects

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