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A parish meeting may request that the district council confers the powers of a parish council on a parish meeting under section 137 of the Local Government Act 1972. This would allow the parish meeting to do any of those things that a parish council can do as specified in the order of which the list is given above. The power is limited to £9. ...
The London County Council: What it is and what it does. 16 pp. J.F. Oakeshott. 62. Parish and District Councils: What they are and what they can do. 16 pp. (No. 53 re-written.) 63. Parish Council Cottages and how to get them. 4 pp. Edward R. Pease. 64. How to Lose and how to Win an Election. 2 pp. Ramsay MacDonald. 65.
Long title: An Act to make provision with respect to local government and the functions of local authorities in England and Wales; to amend Part II of the Transport Act 1968; to confer rights of appeal in respect of decisions relating to licences under the Home Counties (Music and Dancing) Licensing Act 1926; to make further provision with respect to magistrates' courts committees; to abolish ...
Section 11 of the Act allows any such community to collect a petition for a new parish or town council and also to define the area that it shall cover. Once the petition meets a certain threshold of registered electors’ signatures, the local metropolitan borough council, district council or unitary authority cannot stop it.
Parish councils could take on powers under various statutes relating to bath houses, street lighting, burials or libraries. Parish councils were to have power to buy or receive the gift of land or property to provide any of these services. The second part of the bill dealt with poor law guardians and district councils. Among its provisions were ...
A Measure passed by the National Assembly of the Church of England to amend the Parsonages Measure, 1938, [aa] and the New Parishes Measure, 1943, [ao] and to make further provision as to church land; to make further provision as to grants and payments by the Church Commissioners; to provide for the distribution of the tithe maintenance fund ...
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A council could acquire land outside of its area in order to perform its functions; County councils could agree to exchange areas of land to form more efficient boundaries; Rural and urban district councils, previously elected annually by thirds, could opt for elections of the whole council, triennially.