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LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1972 - SECT 131

131.(1) On [1st October 1973]

(a)every county and every county borough shall cease to be an administrative
area for local government purposes;

(b)every borough (other than a county borough), every urban district and every
rural district shall be abolished;

(c)every united district within the meaning of section 12 of the
Public Health (Ireland) Act 1878 or section 7 of the Water Supplies and
Sewerage Act (Northern Ireland) 1945 shall be abolished.

(2) Without prejudice to any provision of an order made under
section 134(2)(h), on [1st October 1973]

(a)the council of every county, county or other borough, urban district and
rural district;

(b)the corporation of every borough other than a county borough or a borough
to whose corporation section 132(3)(b) applies;

(c)the joint board constituted for every united district such as is mentioned
in subsection (1)(c); and

(d)the Belfast City and District Water Commissioners;

(3) A new town commission established under the New Towns Acts (Northern
Ireland) 1965 to 1968 shall

(a)if immediately before [1st October 1973] the commission were exercising
municipal functions, cease to exercise those functions on that day;

(b)cease to exercise development functions, and be dissolved, on such day or
days as the Ministry may by order appoint;

(4) Any council, corporation or joint board to which subsection (2) applies,
the corporation of any county borough or of any borough to whose corporation
section 132(3)(b) applies, the Belfast City and District Water Commissioners,
and any new town commission, is in this Part referred to as an "existing local
authority"; and in this Part "municipal functions" and "development functions"
in relation to a new town commission have the same meanings as in section 7 of
the New Towns Act (Northern Ireland) 1965.

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