LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1972

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LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1972 - SECT 132

1965 c.13

132.(1) On [1st October 1973] the charter of the corporation of every borough
other than a county borough or a borough to whose corporation subsection
(3)(b) applies shall be annulled.

(2) The council for a district which includes the whole or the major part of a
borough other than a county borough may, before [1st October 1973], resolve
that the charter of the corporation of the borough shall have effect in
relation to the district; and, if the borough bears a name other than the name
of the district, the resolution shall provide for the name of the corporation
of the borough to be changed to correspond to the name of the district.

(3) On and after [1st October 1973] the charter of

(a)the corporation of each county borough; and

(b)the corporation of a borough with respect to whose charter a resolution has
been passed under subsection (2);

(4) Where a charter to which subsection (3) applies has effect subject to any
adaptations or modifications by virtue of section 30(1A) of the New Towns Act
(Northern Ireland) 1965, it shall, on [1st October 1973], cease to be subject
thereto.

(5) The corporation established or regulated by a charter to which subsection
(3) applies shall continue to bear the name it bore immediately before [1st
October 1973] or, where a resolution passed under this section provides for a
change of its name, shall on and after that date bear the name specified in
the resolution, and shall continue to have perpetual succession, and shall act
by the council of the district mentioned in that subsection.

(6) The chairman of the council mentioned in subsection (5), and the
councillors of that council who are designated as aldermen in accordance with
the charter, shall be respectively the mayor (or, as the case may be, the lord
mayor) and the aldermen of the borough to which the charter relates.

(7) Without prejudice to any provision of the charter for the conferment of
the freedom of the borough, the local electors of a district in relation to
which a charter to which subsection (3) applies has effect shall, for the
purposes of the charter, be the burgesses (or, as the case may be, the
citizens) of the borough.

(8) When a council passes a resolution under subsection (2) it shall forthwith
publish notice of the resolution in the Belfast Gazette.

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LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1972 - SECT 132