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| | Local Government Act 1972 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | The Local Government Act 1972 was an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom, that reformed local government in England and Wales, on April 1, 1974. |
 | | For example, the area that was to become the seven boroughs of the metropolitan county of West Midlands, Local Government was split between four administrative counties (Herefordshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, and Worcestershire), and eight county boroughs (Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Solihull, Walsall, Warley, West Bromwich, and Wolverhampton). |
 | | Despite assurances that the Act was not attempting to amend historic loyalties, it nonetheless used the term county instead of administrative county and redefined the ceremonial counties used for purposes such as Lieutenancy to these. |
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