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LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (IRELAND) ACT 1872

LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (IRELAND) ACT 1872 - LONG TITLE

An Act for constituting a Local Government Board in Ireland, and
vesting therein certain functions of the Lord Lieutenant, the Privy
Council, and the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant, concerning
the Public Health and Local Government, together with the powers and
duties of the Commissioners for administering the Laws for the
Relief of the Poor in Ireland.{1}
[10th August 1872]
Preamble rep. by SLR 1893 (No.2)

Short title.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (IRELAND) ACT 1872 - SECT 1

1. This Act may be cited as "The Local Government Board (Ireland)
Act, 1872."

Establishment of Local Government Board for Ireland.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (IRELAND) ACT 1872 - SECT 2

2. A Board shall be established, to be called the Local Government
Board for Ireland (in this Act referred to as "The Local Government
Board"),... and all powers and duties vested in or imposed on the
Commissioners for administering the Laws for Relief of the Poor in
Ireland by the several Acts of Parliament relating to the relief of
the poor and any other Acts, or vested in or imposed on the Lord
Lieutenant, the Privy Council, or on the chief secretary by the
enactments mentioned in the schedule annexed hereto, shall be
transferred to and imposed on the said Local Government Board, and,
except as otherwise provided by this Act, shall be exercised and
performed by such Board in like manner and form, and subject to
the same conditions, liabilities, and incidents respectively, as such
powers and duties might before the passing of this Act have been
exercised and performed by the authorities in whom the same were
then vested respectively, or as near thereto as circumstances admit.

Ss.3, 4 rep. by SLR 1893 (No.2); 1898 c.37 s.110 sch.6; SLR 1976

LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (IRELAND) ACT 1872 - SECT 5
Construction of Acts and documents, and power of Local Government
Board.

5. In the construction of and for the purposes of any Act of
Parliament, contract, or other document passed, entered into, or made
before the establishment of the Local Government Board, but so far
only as may be necessary for exercising the powers and discharging
the duties by this Act transferred to and imposed on the Local
Government Board, the name of such Board shall, according to
circumstances, be deemed to be substituted for the Commissioners for
administering the Laws for Relief of the Poor in Ireland, or the
Lord Lieutenant, or Privy Council, or the chief secretary as the
case may require; and any act or thing which might, if this Act
had not passed, have been done by the Commissioners for
administering the Laws for Relief of the Poor in Ireland, or the
Lord Lieutenant, or the Privy Council, or the chief secretary, so
far as relates to the powers and duties hereby transferred, may be
done by the Local Government Board.

S.6 rep. by 1972 c.9 (NI) s.149 sch.9

LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (IRELAND) ACT 1872 - SECT 7
Annual Report.

7. The Local Government Board shall once at least in every year
make a report to the Lord Lieutenant concerning the execution of
the several powers and duties hereby vested in the said Board.

Ss.8, 9 rep. by 1878 c.52 s.294 sch.A

LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (IRELAND) ACT 1872 - SECT 10
As to powers conferred by 1871 c.109 respecting markets and fairs.

10. In addition to the powers conferred by the Local Government
(Ireland) Act, 1871, with regard to markets and fairs, [a district
council established under the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland)
1972], being the owners of any fair held [in the district], shall,
with the consent of two thirds of the members of such [district
council], and with the consent of the Local Government Board, and
any person being the owner of any fair held [in the district]
shall, with the consent of the Local Government Board, have power
to alter and fix from time to time the days for holding such
fairs. A notice of such alteration and fixing shall be published by
such [district council] or person in the [Belfast Gazette] and in
some one newspaper circulated in such [district], and thereupon such
fair shall be held only on the day or days mentioned in such
notice, and it shall be lawful for such [district council] or
person to take all such toll or tolls, and to do all such act or
acts, and to enjoy all and the same rights, powers, and privileges
in respect thereof, and to enforce the same by all and the like
remedies, as if the same were held on the day or days upon which
it was used to be held previous to the publication of such notice.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (IRELAND) ACT 1872 - SECT 11
Amendment of sect.124 of 1840 c.108.

11. Whereas the provisions of section one hundred and twenty-four of
the Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Act, 1840, relating to the
lighting of the boroughs therein referred to, do not apply to any
of such boroughs in which there is a local Act for lighting
thereof, by reason whereof much inconvenience arises, for remedy
thereof it shall be lawful for the council of any such borough, in
which there is a local Act for the lighting thereof, to make an
order that from and after a day named therein the provisions of
the said local Act relating to the lighting of such borough shall
cease to be in force therein; and from and after such day there
shall be in force in lieu thereof within such borough the
provisions of the said section one hundred and twenty-four of the
Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Act, 1840, as the same are amended
by any Act or Acts.

S.12 rep. by SLR 1883; SLR 1893 (No.2); 1972 c.9 (NI) s.149
sch.9...

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