Londonderry County Council

Londonderry County Council
History
Founded	1 April 1899
Disbanded	1 October 1973
Succeeded by	Coleraine Borough Council Cookstown District Council Derry City Council Limavady Borough Council Magherafelt District Council
Meeting place
County Hall, Coleraine

Londonderry County Council was the authority responsible for local government in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, from 1899 to 1973.

History

Londonderry County Council was established on 1 April 1899 under orders issued in accordance with the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 for the administrative county of County Londonderry, which succeeded the former judicial county of Londonderry, except for the city of Londonderry. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

The Local Government (Ireland) Act 1919 introduced proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV) for the 1920 Londonderry County Council election. ^[5] PR-STV was abolished in Northern Ireland under the Local Government Act 1922, with a reversion to first-past-the-post for the 1924 Northern Ireland local elections, the first local elections held in the new jurisdiction. ^{[6] [7]}

It was originally based at the Coleraine Courthouse ^{[8] [9]} but moved to County Hall in Coleraine in 1970. ^[10]

The council was abolished in accordance with the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972 on 1 October 1973. ^[11]

References

1. "Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 (c. 37)". legislation.gov.uk . The National Archives.
2. Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 , s. 1: Establishment of county councils ( 61 & 62 Vict.,c. 37 of 1898, s. 1 ). Enacted on 12 August 1898. Act of the UK Parliament .Retrieved from Irish Statute Book .
3. Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898, s. 124: Commencement of Act ( 61 & 62 Vict.,c. 37 of 1898, s. 124 ). Enacted on 12 August 1898. Act of the UK Parliament .Retrieved from Irish Statute Book .
4. "Orders declaring the boundaries of administrative counties and defining county electoral divisions: County of Londonderry". 27th Report of the Local Government Board for Ireland (Cmd.9480). Dublin: Local Government Board for Ireland. 1900. pp. 286–288.
5. "Local Government (Ireland) Act 1919 (c. 19)". legislation.gov.uk . The National Archives.
6. "Act abolishes Proportional Representation". Decade of Centenaries. Archived from the original on 17 June 2023. Retrieved 17 June 2023.
7. Buckland, Patrick (1980). "Who Governed Northern Ireland? The Royal Assent and the Local Government Bill 1922". Irish Jurist. 15 (2): 326–340. JSTOR   44013911.
8. "The late Lieutenant Colonel Lenox-Conyngham". Belfast Newsletter. 23 October 1916. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
9. "Telephone Directory - Belfast - Dublin - Cork". 1913. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
10. Rowan, Alistair (1979). North West Ulster: The Counties of London Derry, Donegal, Fermanagh and Tyrone. Yale University Press. p. 208. ISBN   978-0300096675.
11. "Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972". Legislation.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 30 October 2019. Retrieved 29 November 2019.