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Definition of local authority.
18 & 19 Vict. c. 120.
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67. The local authority for the purposes of this Act, shall be—
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(1.) In the city of London, except as hereafter in this section mentioned, the court of the Lord Mayor and aldermen of the said city; and
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(2.) In the metropolis (that is, in places for the time being within the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Board of Works under the Metropolis Management Act, 1855), except the city of London, and except as hereafter in this section mentioned, the Metropolitan Board of Works; and
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(3.) In any borough in England which is not assessed to the county rate of any county by the justices of such county, except as hereafter in this section mentioned, the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses acting by the council; and
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(4.) 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; and
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(5.) In any place in which there is no local authority as before in this section defined, the justices in petty sessions assembled.
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