§ "Page 12, after clause 27, insert the following clause—
- "(1) The Towns Improvement Act, 1854, and the enactments amending the same, shall, subject to the exceptions and with the amendments made by this Act, apply to the town forming the urban sanitary district of Carrickfergus, and to every town having commissioners under the Lighting of Towns (Ireland) Act, 1828, which is at the
626 passing of this Act or afterwards becomes an urban sanitary district, and shall so apply in like manner as if it had been in whole adopted in the town, and the boundaries of each such town at the passing of this Act were the boundaries approved under the said Act. - "(2) In each such town the number of councillors shall be the same as the existing number of commissioners. Provided that, if the Local Government Board think fit to divide the town into wards, the wards shall be determined and set out, and the commissioners apportioned among the wards in manner provided by section fifteen of the said Act, for a town where there are municipal commissioners, and the number of commissioners may be varied so as to be in accordance with section sixteen of the said Act.
- "(3) The urban district council of Carrick-fergus shall, as successors of the municipal commissioners of Carrickfergus, be the Carrickfergus harbour commissioners, and the enactments relating to the transfer of property from the said municipal commissioners to the urban district council shall be subject to the provisions of this Act with respect to such portion of the county of the town of Carrickfergus as forms part of the rural sanitary district."— (Mr. Gerald Balfour.)
§ Clause read a second time.
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Amendment proposed—
Line 5, leave out from 'which' to 'district' in line 6.
Line 9, after 'said,' insert 'first-mentioned.'
Line 10, after 'councillors,' insert 'or commissioners, as the case may be.'"—(Mr. M. Healy.)
§ Amendment agreed to.
§ Clause as amended added to the Bill without it Division.