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Local Government Act (with its variations) is a stock short title used for legislation in Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Ireland and the United Kingdom, relating to local government.

The Bill for an Act with this short title may have been known as a Local Government Bill during its passage through Parliament.

Local Government Acts may be a generic name either for legislation bearing that short title or for all legislation which relates to local government.

List

Australia

New South Wales

• Local Government Act 1993 (New South Wales)

Queensland

• Local Government Act 1993 (Queensland)
• Local Government Act 2009 (Queensland)

South Australia

• Local Government Act 1934
• Local Government (Forestry Reserves) Act 1944
• Local Government Finance Authority Act 1983
• Local Government Act 1999 (South Australia)
• Local Government (Elections) Act 1999
• Local Government (Implementation) Act 1999

Tasmania

• Local Government Act 1993 (Tasmania)

Victoria

• Local Government Act 1874 No. 506. The first so-called.
• Local Government Act 1890 No. 1112.
• Local Government Act 1903 No. 1893.
• Local Government Act 1915 No. 2686.
• Local Government Act 1928 No. 3720
• Local Government Act 1946 No. 5203.
• Local Government Act 1958 No. 6299.
• Local Government Act 1989 No. 11 of 1989. The current legislation

Many other acts entitled "Local Government Act" have been passed—as well as even more of the form "Local Government (Specific Matter) Act"—but these are the major ones which define the terms in which the others operate or alter. All but the last have had the long titles "An act to consolidate the Law(s) relating to Local Government". Additional acts concerning local government in the early days of the colony did not have short titles.

Western Australia

• Local Government Act 1995

Canada

British Columbia

• Local Government Act

Malaysia

• The Local Government Act 1976

New Zealand

• The Local Government Act 1974
• The Local Government Act 2002
• The Local Government (Rating) Act 2002
• The Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987
• (and others starting with the same two words)

Ireland

• The Local Government Act 1925
• The Local Government Act 1927
• The Local Government Act 1931
• The Local Government Act 1933
• The Local Government Act 1936
• The Local Government Act 1941
• The Local Government Act 1955
• The Local Government (Reorganisation) Act 1985
• The Local Government Act 1991
• The Local Government Act 1994
• The Local Government Act 1998
• The Local Government Act 2000
• The Local Government Act 2001
• The Local Government Reform Act 2014
• The Local Government Act 2019

United Kingdom

Parliament of the United Kingdom

The following list of acts passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom only includes public general acts, and so does not include any of the numerous "provisional order confirmation acts"

Parliament of Northern Ireland

• The Local Government (Emergency Powers) Act (Northern Ireland) 1921
• The Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1922
• The Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1969
• The Local Government (Boundaries) Act (Northern Ireland) 1971
• The Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972

Northern Ireland Assembly

• The Local Government (Best Value) Act (Northern Ireland) 2002
• The Local Government (Boundaries) Act (Northern Ireland) 2008
• The Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (Northern Ireland) 2010
• The Local Government Finance Act (Northern Ireland) 2011
• The Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 2014
• The Local Government (Meetings and Performance) Act (Northern Ireland) 2021

Senedd Cymru

• The Local Government (Wales) Measure 2009
• The Local Government (Wales) Measure 2011
• The Democracy and Boundary Commission Cymru etc. Act 2013 was originally known as the 'Local Government (Democracy) (Wales) Act 2013'
• The Local Government (Wales) Act 2015
• The Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021

Scottish Parliament

• The Scottish Local Government (Elections) Act 2002
• The Local Government in Scotland Act 2003
• The Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004
• The Scottish Local Government (Elections) Act 2009
• The Local Government Finance (Unoccupied Properties etc.) (Scotland) Act 2012
• The Scottish Local Government Elections (Candidacy Rights of Foreign Nationals) Act 2022

See also

• List of short titles

• Lists of legislation by short title