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Make
new provision relating to admission to borough freedom. |
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Be
it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty,
by and with the advice and |
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consent of the Lords Spiritual
and Temporal, and Commons, in this present |
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Parliament assembled, and
by the authority of the same, as follows:— |
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(1) |
The Local
Government Act 1972 (c. 70) is amended as follows. |
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(2) |
In section 248 (freemen
and inhabitants of existing boroughs), after subsection |
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“(1A) |
Where the son of a freeman
of a city or town may claim to be admitted |
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as
a freeman of that place, the daughter of a freeman may likewise
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(1B) |
The son or daughter of
a freeman of a city or town shall be admitted as |
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a
freeman whether born before or after the admission, as a freeman,
of |
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his
or her freeman parent and wherever he or she was born. |
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(1C) |
In subsections (1A) and
(1B) “freeman” excludes a freeman of the City |
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(1) |
This Act may be cited as
the Borough Freedom (Family Succession) Act 2004. |
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(2) |
This Act extends to England
and Wales only. |
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