Local Government Act 1933


The Local Government Act 1933 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that consolidated and revised existing legislation that regulated local government in England and Wales. It remained the principal legislation regulating local government until the Local Government Act 1972 took effect in 1974.

Powers of local authorities

Although local authorities acquired few new powers or duties, the Act did include a few innovations:
Although the 1933 Act did not create new local government areas, it repealed most of the Local Government Acts of 1888 and 1894, and parts of the Municipal Corporations Act 1882, and reestablished the existing councils and administrative areas.
Section 1 stated:
The term "non-county boroughs" was introduced in preference to "municipal borough" as county boroughs were also legally municipal boroughs. The councils for each of these various areas were to be known by the generic term of "local authorities" in this and subsequent legislation.
The actual titles of the councils remained the same:
Rural parishes were governed by parish councils or parish meetings.

Local government areas listed in the Act

Administrative counties
England
Wales
County boroughs
England
Wales
Non-county boroughs
England
Administrative countyNon-county boroughs
BedfordBedford, Dunstable, Luton
BerksAbingdon, Maidenhead, Newbury, New Windsor, Wallingford, Wokingham
BuckinghamAylesbury, Buckling, Chepping Wycombe
CambridgeCambridge
ChesterCongleton, Crewe, Dukinfield, Hyde, Macclesfield, Stalybridge
CornwallBodmin, Dunheved otherwise Launceston, Falmouth, Fowey, Helston, Liskeard, Lostwithiel, Penryn, Penzance, Saint Ives, Saltash, Truro
CumberlandWhitehaven, Workington
DerbyBuxton, Chesterfield, Glossop, Ilkeston
DevonBarnstaple, Bideford, Clifton Dartmouth Hardness, Great Torrington, Honiton, Okehampton, South Molton, Tiverton, Totnes
DorsetBridport, Dorchester, Lyme Regis, Poole, Shaftesbury, Wareham, Weymouth and Melcombe Regis
DurhamDurham, Hartlepool, Jarrow, Stockton-on-Tees
EssexBarking, Chelmsford, Colchester, Harwich, Ilford, Leyton, Maldon, Saffron Walden, Walthamstow
GloucesterCheltenham, Tewkesbury
HerefordHereford, Leominster
HertfordHemel Hempstead, Hertford, Saint Alban, Watford
HuntingdonGodmanchester, Huntingdon, Saint Ives
Isle of ElyWisbech
Isle of WightNewport, Ryde
KentBromley, Chatham, Dartford, Deal, Dover, Faversham, Folkestone, Gillingham, Gravesend, Hythe, Lydd, Maidstone, Margate, New Romney, Queenborough, Ramsgate, Rochester, Sandwich, Tenterden, Royal Tunbridge Wells
LancasterAccrington, Ashton-under-Lyne, Bacup, Chorley, Clitheroe, Colne, Darwen, Eccles, Fleetwood, Haslingden, Heywood, Lancaster, Lytham Saint Anne's, Middleton, Morecambe and Heysham, Mossley, Nelson, Rawtenstall, Stretford, Widnes
LeicesterLoughborough
Lincoln, Parts of HollandBoston
Lincoln, Parts of KestevenGrantham, Stamford
Lincoln, Parts of LindseyLouth
MiddlesexActon, Brentford and Chiswick, Ealing, Finchley, Hendon, Heston and Isleworth, Hornsey, Southgate, Twickenham, Willesden, Wood Green
MonmouthAbergavenny, Monmouth
NorfolkKing's Lynn, Thetford
NorthamptonBrackley, Daventry, Higham Ferrers
NorthumberlandBerwick-upon-Tweed, Blyth, Morpeth, Wallsend
NottinghamEast Retford, Mansfield, Newark, Worksop
OxfordBanbury, Chipping Norton, Henley-upon-Thames, Woodstock
SalopBishop's Castle, Bridgnorth, Ludlow, Oswestry, Shrewsbury, Wenlock
Soke of PeterboroughPeterborough
SomersetBridgwater, Chard, Glastonbury, Taunton, Wells, Yeovil
SouthamptonAldershot, Andover, Basingstoke, Christchurch, Gosport, Lymington, Romsey, Winchester
StaffordBilston, Lichfield, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Rowley Regis, Stafford, Tamworth, Wednesbury
Suffolk, EastAldeburgh, Beccles, Eye, Lowestoft, Southwold
Suffolk, WestBury Saint Edmunds, Sudbury
SurreyBarnes, Godalming, Guildford, Kingston upon Thames, Reigate, Richmond, Wimbledon
Sussex, EastBexhill, Hove, Lewes, Rye
Sussex, WestArundel, Chichester, Worthing
WarwickNuneaton, Royal Leamington Spa, Rugby, Stratford-upon-Avon, Sutton Coldfield, Warwick
WestmorlandAppleby, Kendal
WiltsCalne, Chippenham, Devizes, Malmesbury, Marlborough, New Sarum, Swindon, Wilton
WorcesterBewdley, Droitwich, Evesham, Kidderminster, Stourbridge
York, East RidingBeverley, Bridlington, Hedon
York, North RidingRedcar, Richmond, Scarborough, Thornaby-on-Tees
York, West RidingBatley, Brighouse, Goole, Harrogate, Keighley, Morley, Ossett, Pontefract, Pudsey, Ripon, Todmorden

Wales
Administrative countyNon-county boroughs
AngleseyBeaumaris
BrecknockBrecknock
CaernarvonBangor, Caernarvon, Conway, Pwllheli
CardiganAberystwith, Cardigan, Lampeter
CarmarthenCarmarthen, Kidwelly, Llandovery, Llanelly
DenbighDenbigh, Ruthin, Wrexham
FlintFlint
GlamorganCowbridge, Neath, Port Talbot
MontgomeryLlanfyllin, Llanidloes, Montgomery, Welshpool
PembrokeHaverfordwest, Pembroke, Tenby

Amendment and repeal

The 1933 Act was amended by the Local Government Act 1958. The local authorities as defined in the Act, with the exception of rural parishes, were abolished in 1974, by the Local Government Act 1972, when most of the Act was repealed. Parts of the Act still have currency, however. For example, many council byelaws now in force are made under section 249 of the Act.