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County Councils,

[49 VIOT.]

A.D. 1886. which it is considered a part for the purposes of the election of

members to serve in Parliament:

Tempoary

shire as

And whereas it is expedient that any such detached part of a county should for the purpose of holding coroners inquests form part of the county of which it forms part for the purpose of the 5 county rate: Be it therefore enacted as follows:-

On and after the

there shall be repealed so much of the Detached Parts of Counties Act of 1844, as provides that such Act shall not apply to coroners inquests under the said Coroners Act of 1843, and every part of a county which on the paming of 10 the said Coroners Act of 1843, that is to say, on the eleventh day of April one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, was detached from the main body of the county shall, on and after the appointed day, for the purpose of holding coroners inquests, be deemed to form part of that county of which it is made to form part by a scheme 15 under this Aot, and if so such scheme is made then of that county of which it is declared to form a part by the said Detached Parts of Counties Act of 1844:

there may be &

Provided that where on the said day of coroner appointed for and acting in any detached part of a county to 20 which that Act applied, that coroner shall continue to exercise his jurisdiction within the said detached part for so long a time and in such manner and subject to such power of removal as he would have held and exercised the same if this Act had not passed.

Any part of a county which under the provisions of this Act with 25 respect to detached parts of counties is transferred from one county to another shall, subject to the provisions of any Order in Council under the enactments with respect to coroners districts, form in the county to which it is so transferred part of that coroner's district which surrounds it, or, where it is surrounded by two or more 80 coroners districts, of that coroner's district with which it has the longest common boundary,

75. Whereas heretofore Lincolnshire and Yorkshire have each provisions for Yorkshire been one county for the purposes of the jurisdiction of coroners, but and Lincoln- for the purposes of this Act, the divisions of Lincolnshire and 25

aach of the three ridings of Yorkshire are respectively separate counties, and it is expedient to make the following provisions for the introduction of the provisions of this Act into each such separate county: Be it therefore enacted as follows:-

regards coroners.

Where a coroner's district is wholly comprised in any county as 40 constituted under this Act, the coroner elected for that district

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