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LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOUNDARIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1971

LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOUNDARIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1971 - LONG TITLE

An Act to provide that Northern Ireland shall be divided into
twenty-six local government districts and that each of those
districts shall be divided into wards; to appoint a Commissioner to
make recommendations regarding the boundaries and names of those
districts and wards and the number of wards in each district; and
for purposes connected therewith.
[23rd March 1971]
Local government districts and wards.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOUNDARIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1971 - SECT 1

1.(1) Northern Ireland shall for the purposes of local government be
divided into twenty-six districts to be known as local government
districts and shall be so divided that each local government
district incorporates the whole or the major part of one of the
places specified in Schedule 1.

(2) Each local government district shall be divided into district
electoral divisions to be known as wards.

(3) The boundaries and names of the local government districts and
the number, boundaries and names of the wards into which each of
those districts is divided shall be such as are prescribed by an
order made under section 4(5).

(4) Commencement

S.2 rep. by SLR 1976. S.3 rep. by 1975 c.25 s.5(2) sch.3 Pt.II;
SLR 1976

LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOUNDARIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1971 - SECT 4
Implementation of recommendations for new boundaries.

4.Subs.(1)(4) rep. by SLR 1976

(5) On the approval of the draft order by a resolution of each
House of Parliament, the Minister shall make an order in terms of
the draft as so approved.

(6) The validity of any order purporting to be made under
subsection (5) and reciting that a draft thereof has been approved
by resolution of each House of Parliament shall not be called in
question in any legal proceedings whatever.

Ss.5,6 rep. by SLR 1980

LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOUNDARIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1971 - SECT 7
Short title, construction and citation.

7. This Act may be cited as the Local Government (Boundaries) Act
(Northern Ireland) 1971 and shall be construed as one with the
Local Government Acts (Northern Ireland) 1898 to 1968 and those Acts
and this Act may be cited together as the Local Government Acts
(Northern Ireland) 1898 to 1971.

Antrim urban district electoral division.

Armagh urban district.

Ballycastle urban district.

Ballymena borough.

Ballymoney urban district.

Banbridge urban district.

Bangor borough.

Belfast county borough.

Carrickfergus borough.

Castlereagh district electoral division.

Coleraine borough.

Cookstown urban district.

Craigavon urban district.

Downpatrick urban district.

Dungannon urban district.

Enniskillen borough.

Larne borough.

Limavady urban district.

Lisburn borough.

Londonderry county borough.

Magherafelt district electoral division.

Newry urban district.

Newtownabbey urban district.

Newtownards borough.

Omagh urban district.

Strabane urban district.

Schedules 2,3 rep. by SLR 1976

Section 1(1).