LOCAL GOVERNMENT (IRELAND) ACT 1898 - SECT 69 Boundaries of counties for judicial, militia, jury, police, and other purposes, and provision as to revocation of borough commission of the peace and as to certain chief clerks.

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LOCAL GOVERNMENT (IRELAND) ACT 1898 - SECT 69

Boundaries of counties for judicial, militia, jury, police, and other purposes, and provision as to revocation of borough commission of the peace and as to certain chief clerks.

69.(1) A place which, for the purposes of this Act, is a part of an
administrative county shall, subject as in this section mentioned, form part
of that county for all other purposes, whether ... sheriff, ... militia,
police, registration, ... [chief clerk], or other county officers, or
otherwise ...

(2) Provided that

(b)nothing in this Act, nor anything done in pursuance of this Act, shall
alter the limits of any parliamentary borough or parliamentary county within
the meaning of the Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885, or confer any right to
vote at the election of a member to serve in Parliament in any parliamentary
borough where such right did not previously exist.

(3) The court house of a county at large, when situate within a county of a
city or town, shall, while it continues to be such court house, be deemed to
form part of the body of such county at large; provided that if any court held
for the county of the city or town is held in such court house, the court
house shall then be deemed, for the purpose of the jurisdiction of that court,
to be part of the body of the county of the city or town.

(4) It shall be lawful for Her Majesty the Queen, on petition from the council
of any borough other than a county borough, by letters patent, to revoke the
grant of the commission of the peace for the borough, and to make such
provision as to Her Majesty seems proper for the protection of interests
existing at the date of the revocation.

(5) Notwithstanding anything in this Act, the same officer ... shall be [chief
clerk] for the county of Antrim and for the county of the city of Belfast
constituted by this Act, and the same officer shall continue to be [chief
clerk] for the county of Londonderry, and for the county of the city of
Londonderry constituted by this Act.

Subs.(7) rep. by 1926 c.15 (NI) s.18(6) sch.6; 1974 NI 6 art.9(2) sch.5

S.70 rep. by SLR (NI) 1954. S.71 rep. by 1972 NI 16 art.63(3) sch.19

General provisions as to transfer of business to county and district councils.

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LOCAL GOVERNMENT (IRELAND) ACT 1898 - SECT 69