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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


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