HC Deb 31 July 1897 vol 52 c48

1. For all the purposes of the Coroners Acts 1844, 1860, 1887, and 1892, the ridings of Yorkshire shall respectively be separate counties, and the County Council of each riding shall, to the exclusion of any other authority, be the County Authority for all the purposes of those Acts:

Provided that nothing in this section shall affect the alteration in manner provided by law of the district of any coroner which is immediately before the commencement of this Act situate partly in one and partly in another of the ridings.

Amendments made: Leave out "law," and insert "section five, subsection three, of the Local Government Act 1887"; leave out "immediately before," and insert "at."—(Mr. Jesse Collings.)

As amended, considered; Amendments made; Bill read the Third time, and passed.