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AUCTIONS (LOCAL CONTROL) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1957 - SECT 1



1.(1) For the purposes of this Act the expression "local authority" means the
council of a county borough, borough, urban or rural district and references
to a district are references to the district of any such council.

(2) This Act shall extend throughout any district to which, by an order made
by the Minister of Home Affairs under sub-section (3), this Act is declared to
extend; and nothing in section six of the Interpretation Act (Northern
Ireland), 1954, shall be taken to extend this Act to any other district or
place.

(3) Where a local authority have resolved that this Act should extend to their
district, the Minister of Home Affairs may on the application of that
authority by order declare this Act to extend to that district.

(4) As soon as is reasonably practicable after the making of an order under
sub-section (3)

(a)the Ministry of Home Affairs shall publish notice of the making thereof in
the Belfast Gazette; and

(b)the local authority shall publish notice of the making thereof in such two
or more newspapers circulating in their district as the authority think proper
for the information of persons in their district.


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