| Act of Parliament | |
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| Long title | An Act to amend the law relating to the administration of poor relief, registration of births, deaths, and marriages, highways, town planning and local government; to extend the application of the Rating and Valuation (Apportionment) Act, 1928, to hereditaments in which no persons are employed; to grant complete or partial relief from rates in the case of the hereditaments to which that Act applies; to discontinue certain grants from the Exchequer and provide other grants in lieu thereof; and for purposes consequential on the matters aforesaid. |
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| Citation | 19 & 20 Geo. 5. c. 17 |
| Territorial extent | England and Wales |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 27 March 1929 |
Status: Amended | |
The Local Government Act 1929[1] (19 & 20 Geo. 5. c. 17) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that made changes to the Poor Law and local government in England and Wales.
The act abolished the system of poor law unions in England and Wales and their boards of guardians, transferring their powers to local authorities. It also gave county councils increased powers over highways, and made provisions for the restructuring of urban and rural districts as more efficient local government areas.
- ^ a b The short title as conferred by s. 138 of the act was "Local Government Act, 1929"; the modern convention for the citation of short titles omits the comma after the word "Act"