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1896. 11. The Acts specified in the schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent in the third column of that schedule mentioned.

12. This Act shall come into operation on the first day of November next after the passing thereof, and shall apply to all proceedings begun under the principal Acts in like manner as if they had been begun after the commencement of this Act.

E it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1. The Local Government Board may, on the application of the sanitary authority of any rural district, or of persons rated to the relief of the poor, the assessment of whose hereditaments amounts at the least to one tenth of the net rateable value of such district, with powers or of any contributory place therein, by order to be published in the Dublin Gazette, or in such other manner as the Local Government Board may direct, declare any provisions of the Public Health (Ireland) Acts, 1878 to 1890, in force in urban districts to be in force in such rural district or contributory place, and may invest such authority with all or any of the powers, rights, duties, capacities, liabilities, and obligations of an urban authority under