Local Government Act 1888

3 Transfer to county council of administrative business of quarter sessions.

There shall be transferred to the council of each county on and after the appointed day, the administrative business of the justices of the county in quarter sessions assembled, that is to say, all business done by the quarter sessions or any committee appointed by the quarter sessions, in respect of the several matters following, namely,—

(i) The making, assessing, and levying of county, police, hundred, and all rates, and the application and expenditure thereof, and the making of orders for the payment of sums payable out of any such rate or out of the county stock or county fund, and the preparation and revision of the basis or standard for the county rate;

(ii) The borrowing of money;

(iii) The passing of the accounts of and the discharge of the county treasurer;

(iv) Shire halls, county halls, assize courts, judges lodgings, lockup houses, court houses, justices rooms, police stations, and county buildings, works, and property, subject as to the use of buildings by the quarter sessions and the justices to the provisions of this Act respecting the joint committee of quarter sessions and the county council;

(v) The licensing under any general Act of houses and other places for music or for dancing, and the granting of licences under the [42 & 43 Vict. c. 18.] Racecourses Licensing Act, 1879 ;

(vi) The provision, enlargement, maintenance, management, and visitation of and other dealing with asylums for pauper lunatics;

(vii) The establishment and maintenance of and the contribution to reformatory and industrial schools ;

(viii) Bridges and roads repairable with bridges, and any powers vested by the [41 & 42 Vict. c. 77.] Highways and Locomotives (Amendment) Act, 1878, in the county authority;

(ix) The tables of fees to be taken by and the costs to be allowed to any inspector, analyst, or person holding any office in the county other than the clerk of the peace and the clerks of the justices;

(x) The appointment, removal, and determination of salaries, of the county treasurer, the county surveyor, the public analysts, any officer under the [38 & 39 Vict. c. 17.] Explosives Act, 1875, and any officers whose remuneration is paid out of the county rate other than the clerk of the peace and the clerks of the justices;

(xi) The salary of any coroner whose salary is payable out of the county rate, the fees, allowances, and disbursements allowed to be paid by any such coroner, and the division of the county into coroners' districts, and the assignment of such districts ;

(xii) The division of the county into polling districts for the purposes of parliamentary elections, the appointment of places of election, the places of holding courts for the revision of the lists of voters, and the costs of and other matters to be done for the registration of parliamentary voters ;

(xiii) The execution as local authority of the Acts relating to contagious diseases of animals, to destructive insects, to fish conservancy, to wild birds, to weights and measures, and to gas meters, and of the [32 & 33 Vict. c. 49.] Local Stamp Act, 1869 ;

(xiv) Any matters arising under the [49 & 50 Vict. c. 38.] Riot (Damages) Act, 1886 ;

(xv) The registration of rules of scientific societies under the Act of the session of the sixth and seventh years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter thirty-six; the registration of charitable gifts under the Act of the session of the fifty-second year of the reign of George the Third, chapter one hundred and two; the certifying and recording of places of religious worship under the Act of the session of the fifty-second year of the reign of George the Third, chapter one hundred and fifty-five; the confirmation and record of the rules of loan societies under the Act of the session of the third and fourth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter one hundred and ten; and

(xvi) Any other business transferred by this Act.