Administrative county
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An administrative county was an administrative area in the UK and Ireland used for the purposes of local government.
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[edit] History
[edit] England and Wales
- Further information: Administrative counties of England
- Further information: Subdivisions of Wales
The term was introduced for England and Wales by the Local Government Act 1888, which created county councils for various areas, and called them 'administrative counties' to distinguish them from the continuing statutory counties (which would now be termed ceremonial counties).
In England and Wales the legislation was repealed in 1974, and entities called 'metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties' in England and 'counties' in Wales were introduced in their place. Though strictly inaccurate, these are often called 'administrative counties' to distinguish them from both the traditional counties, and the ceremonial counties.
[edit] Scotland
- Further information: Counties of Scotland
In Scotland they were never established as separate entities as they were in England and Wales. For local government purposes Scottish counties were replaced in 1975 with a system of regions and island council areas.
[edit] Ireland
The Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 created administrative counties in Ireland on the same model that had been used in England and Wales.
In Northern Ireland the administrative counties were replaced by a system of 26 districts on October 1, 1973. Section 131 of the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972 stated that "every county and every county borough shall cease to be an administrative area for local government purposes". [1]
The areas of the former administrative counties (and county boroughs) remain in use for Lieutenancy purposes, being defined as the areas used "for local government purposes immediately before 1st October 1973, subject to any subsequent definition of their boundaries...".[2]
In the Republic of Ireland the legislation that created them remained in force until the Local Government Act 2001 was passed, which renamed them 'counties'.
[edit] New entities
The administrative counties that did not share the names of traditional counties :
England
- East Riding of Yorkshire (Yorkshire)
- East Sussex (Sussex)
- East Suffolk (Suffolk)
- Holland (Lincolnshire)
- Isle of Ely (part of Cambridgeshire)
- Isle of Wight (Hampshire)
- Kesteven (Lincolnshire)
- Lindsey (Lincolnshire)
- London (parts of Middlesex, Kent, Surrey)
- North Riding of Yorkshire (Yorkshire)
- Soke of Peterborough (part of Northamptonshire)
- West Riding of Yorkshire (Yorkshire)
- West Suffolk (Suffolk)
- West Sussex (Sussex)
Scotland
Republic of Ireland
and, created in 1994 -
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972, (1972 C.9)
- ^ The Northern Ireland (Lieutenancy) Order 1975 (S.I. 1975 No.156)
[edit] External links
- The Boundary Committee for England
- The Boundary Committee for Scotland
- The Boundary Committee for Wales
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