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Administrative county
Category	County
Location	England and Wales and Ireland
Created by	Local Government Act 1888
	Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898
Created	1889
	1899
Abolished by	Local Government (Boundaries) Act (Northern Ireland) 1971
	Local Government Act 1972
	Local Government Act 2001
Abolished	Northern Ireland 1973
	1974
	2002
Government	County council
Subdivisions	Rural district
	Urban district
	Municipal borough

An administrative county was an administrative division in England and Wales and Ireland used for the purposes of local government. They are now abolished, although in Northern Ireland their former areas are used as the basis for lieutenancy.

[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.

In England and Wales the legislation was repealed in 1974, and entities called 'metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties' in England and 'counties' in Wales were introduced in their place.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 historic 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^{[citation needed]}. 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 1 October 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 1 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 previous counties:

England

County	Administrative counties
Cambridgeshire	Isle of Ely
Hampshire	Isle of Wight
Lincolnshire	Holland, Kesteven, Lindsey
London	London
Northamptonshire	Soke of Peterborough
Suffolk	East Suffolk, West Suffolk
Sussex	East Sussex, West Sussex
Yorkshire	East Riding, North Riding, West Riding

Scotland

Ross and Cromarty (Ross-shire and Cromartyshire)

Republic of Ireland

South Tipperary and North Tipperary (County Tipperary)

and, created in 1994 -

Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, Fingal, South Dublin (County Dublin)

[edit] See also

List of articles about local government in the United Kingdom

[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

[0] Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972, (1972 C.9)

[1] The Northern Ireland (Lieutenancy) Order 1975 (S.I. 1975 No.156)

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