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[49 Πιστ.]
County Councils.
1
(No. 4.)
DRAFT
OF A
BILL
FOR
Amending the Law in relation to the administration of County A.D. 1886.
Business.
BE consent of the
it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and
with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
Preliminary.
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1. This Act may be cited as the County Councils Act, 1886. 2. This Act shall not extend to Scotland or Ireland.
Short titla.
Extent of
Act.
PART I.
10
CONSTITUTION AND Powers of County COUNCIL.
Constitution of County Council.
8. A council (in this Act referred to as a county council or a Establish- council of a county) shall be elected in every county as defined by ment of
county this Act, and be entrusted with the management of the adminis- council. trative and financial business of that county, and shall consist of 15 the chairman of the county, wardens, and councillors.
Councillors.
as to coun-
4. (1.) The councillors shall be elective and for the purpose of Regulations their election a county shall be divided into electoral divisions, cillors. consisting of the quarter sessions boroughs entitled to be represented 20 on the council and of electoral divisions corresponding to petty sessional divisions or parts of such divisions, or made up of the union of petty sessional divisions or parts of petty sessional divisions.
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