Local Government Board (Ireland) Act 1872
WHEREAS it is expedient to concentrate in one department, as herein-after provided, the supervision of the laws relating to the public health, local government, and the relief of the poor in Ireland: Be it therefore 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: