Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972
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| Citation | 1972 c. 9 |
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| Royal assent | 25 March 1972 |
| Commencement | 25 March 1972 |
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| Relates to | Public Health (Ireland) Act 1878, Water Supplies and Sewerage Act (Northern Ireland) 1945, New Towns Acts (Northern Ireland), Local Government (Boundaries) Act (Northern Ireland) 1971, Local Government (Boundaries) (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 |
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Status: Current legislation
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The Local Government (Northern Ireland) Act 1972 (1972 c. 9) was an Act of the Parliament of Northern Ireland that constituted district councils to administer the twenty-six local government districts created by the Local Government (Boundaries) Act (Northern Ireland) 1971, and abolished the existing local authorities in Northern Ireland.
Each Local Government District was to have a district council consisting of elected councillors of whom one would be chairman and another could be vice-chairman.
Provision for the continuation of city and borough status was included in the Act, which provided that the charter of each county borough should apply to the new district containing it, and that the council for a district which includes the whole or the major part of a borough other than a county borough may... resolve that the charter of the corporation of the borough shall have effect in relation to the district. In addition a district council could apply for a new charter making it a borough. In the original Act, the council could petition the Governor of Northern Ireland for a royal charter. By the time the Act came into effect, however, the office of governor had been abolished, and petitions were addressed to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. Where a district was designated a city or borough, the chairman and vice-chairman became the mayor and deputy-mayor. In the case of Belfast, the chairman's title continued to be lord mayor.
Section 131 of the Act stated that every county and every county borough shall cease to be an administrative area for local government purposes, and that every borough (other than a county borough), every urban district and every rural district shall be abolished.
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