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An Act for consolidating, with Amendments, enactments relating to Municipal Corporations in England and Wales.
[18th August 1882]
WHEREAS divers bodies corporate at sundry times have been constituted in the cities, towns, and boroughs of England and Wales, to the intent that the same might for ever be and remain well and quietly governed :
And whereas the Act of the session of the fifth and sixth years of the reign of King William the Fourth, chapter seventy-six, " to " provide for the regulation of Municipal Corporations in England " and Wales," applies to most of those bodies constituted before the passing of that Act, and to every of those bodies constituted after the passing of that Act; and that Act having been from time to time much altered and added to by other Acts, it is expedient that all the Acts aforesaid be reduced into one Act with some amendments :
Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :
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