Main Changes and Repeals
In 1919 the electoral system was changed to proportional representation by the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1919. This was first used in the election to Sligo Corporation in 1919, and then for the 1920 Irish local elections.
The Rural District Councils, designed to allow the closest local control of some administrative functions, were abolished in the Irish Free State after 1923 to save money, but the Urban District Councils were retained.
In Northern Ireland, the provisions of the Act were repealed in the 1970s, with a pattern of unitary authorities being substituted for the existing two-tier structure. In the Republic of Ireland, the Act was amended by several Acts of the Oireachtas principally by the abolition of Rural District councils 1925–30 and the inception of a system of council-manager government 1929–40; the Act as so amended has been replaced by the Local Government Act 2001.
Read more about this topic: Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898
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