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326 NINTH SCHEDULE.

1. The names, contents, and boundaries of each parliamentary borough and county and division thereof shall be as specified in this schedule.

2. The areas mentioned the second and last columns of this schedule shall be taken to be those areas as constituted on the first day of October nineteen hunred and seventeen: Provided that any misnomer or inaccurate description of any of those areas in those columns shall not in any way prevent or abridge the operation of this Act with respect to the subject of the description if it is so designated as to be commonly understood.

3. The wards mentioned in this schedule are, in relation to any borough in London, wards of the metropolitnn borough; in relation to any municipal borough wards of the municipal borough; and, in relation to any urban district, wards of the urban district.

4. The expression "burgh," when used in this schedule, means a burgh as bounded for police purposes on the first day of October nineteen hundred and seventeen.

5. If any doubt arises as to the constituency in which any parish, townland, ward, or other place, whether larger or smaller than a parish, townland, or ward, is intended by this schedule to be included, that doubt shall be determined by the Local Government Board, or in Scotland by the Secretary for Scotland.

I. PARLIAMENTARY BOROUGHS (1)