Local Government in the Republic of Ireland - Council-Manager Government, County Borough, Local Government ACT 1898, County Council (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Council-manager government, County borough, Local Government Act 1898, County council, Town commissioners, Administrative counties of Ireland, NUTS 2 statistical regions of the Republic of Ireland, Town council, Municipal Corporations Act 1840, Rural district, Urban district, Council Manager, Irish anniversary festivals, Regional Authorities in Ireland, Twentieth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland, Town Councils in the Republic of Ireland, Local Electoral Area, Local Government Act 2001, Local Government Act 1993, Local Government Act 1925. Excerpt: County borough is a term introduced in 1889 in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (excluding Scotland), to refer to a borough or a city independent of county council control. They were abolished by the Local Government Act 1972 in England and Wales, but continue in use for lieutenancy and shrievalty in Northern Ireland. In the Republic of Ireland they remain in existence but have been renamed cities under the provisions of the Local Government Act 2001. The Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 re-introduced the term for certain "principal areas" in Wales. Scotland did not have county boroughs but instead counties of cities. These were abolished on 16 May 1975. All four Scottish cities of the time - Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, and Glasgow - were included in this category. There was an additional category of large burgh in the Scottish system, which were responsible for all services apart from police, education and fire. When county councils were first created in 1889, it was decided that to let them have authority over large towns or cities would be impractical, and so any large incorporated place would have the right to be a county borough, and thus independent from the administrative county it would otherwise come under. Some cities and towns were alrea...