1. HomeBaile
  2. Pre 1922 ActsAchtanna
  3. 1878
  4. Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878

Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878
  • Permanent Page URL

Description of urban sanitary districts and urban sanitary authorities.

4. Urban sanitary districts (or urban districts) shall consist of the places in that behalf mentioned in the first column of the table in this section contained, and urban sanitary authorities (or urban authorities) shall be the several bodies of persons specified in the second column of the said table in relation to the said places respectively.

Table above referred to.

Urban Sanitary District.

Urban Sanitary Authority.

The City of Dublin       -      -      -      -      -

The Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses acting by the Town Council.

Towns corporate (except Dublin)  -      -      -

The Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses acting by the Town Council.

Towns, the population of which according to the last Parliamentary census exceeds six thousand, having Commissioners appointed by virtue of the Lighting of Towns (Ireland) Act, 1828. (9 Geo. 4. c. 82.)

The Commissioners.

Towns, the population of which according to the last Parliamentary census exceeds six thousand, having Municipal Commissioners under the Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Act, 1840 (3 & 4 Vict. c. 108).

The Municipal Commissioners.

Towns, the population of which according to the last Parliamentary census exceeds six thousand, having Town Commissioners under the Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1854 (17 & 18 Vict. c. 103).

The Town Commissioners.

Towns or Townships having Commissioners under Local Acts.

The Town or Township Commissioners.