Explosives Act 1875 (c. 17)

Part IV.—Supplemental Provisions, Legal Proceedings, Exemptions, and Definitions U.K.

Application of Act to Ireland U.K.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 References to Ireland to be construed as exclusive of Republic of Ireland: S.R. & O. 1923/405 (Rev. X, p. 298: 1923, p. 400), art. 2

116 Definition of local authority. U.K.

The local authority for the purposes of this Act shall be—

(1) In the city of Dublin, the Lord Mayor, aldermen, and burgesses acting by the town council:

(2) In any urban sanitary district in which the powers, jurisdictions, and authorities of the grand jury of the county in which such district is situate are vested and exerciseable by the urban sanitary authority, except as hereafter in this section mentioned, the urban sanitary authority:

(3) In any harbour within the jurisdiction of a harbour authority, whether situate or not within the jurisdiction of any local authority before in this section mentioned, the harbour authority, to the exclusion of any other local authority:

(4) In any place in which there is no local authority as before in this section defined, the justices in petty sessions assembled.

The expressions “urban sanitary authority” and “urban sanitary district” have the same meanings respectively as in the M1 Public Health (Ireland) Act 1874.

Marginal Citations

M1 1874 c. 93.