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Power to alter sanitary districts.
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7. The Local Government Board shall have power, by provisional order, to separate from a rural sanitary district any town or district wholly situate therein, in which there shall be town or township commissioners under any Act of Parliament, whether the number of the inhabitants of such town or district shall be more or less than six thousand, and to constitute it an urban sanitary district to be thereafter subject to all the provisions of this Act affecting urban sanitary districts, or to include any such town or district wholly situate in a rural sanitary district in any adjoining urban sanitary district, which, when so included in such urban sanitary district, shall be subject to all the provisions of the Acts constituting the urban authority of such urban sanitary district, and to all the provisions of this Act affecting urban sanitary districts; and the said Board shall likewise have power, by provisional order, to add any town or township under this Act constituted an urban sanitary authority to the rural sanitary district in which it is situate, to be subject thereafter to all provisions of this Act affecting rural sanitary districts. No such provisional order shall be made except on petition from one or other of the towns townships or districts affected by such order, nor in the event of any objection being taken by any person affected thereby until after due local inquiry.
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