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District council may refer to:
- A branch of the Local government in the United Kingdom:
- Supervising one of the Districts of England:
- A Metropolitan borough
- A Non-metropolitan district
- A Unitary authority
- Supervising one of the Principal Areas of Wales
- Supervising one of the Subdivisions of Scotland
- Supervising one of the Districts of Northern Ireland
- Supervising one of the Districts of England:
- A branch of local government in the Australian state of South Australia
- One of the District Councils of Bangladesh
- One of the District Councils of Hong Kong
- District Council (First), a functional constituency in the elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong.
- District Council (Second), a functional constituency in the elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong.
- One of the District Councils of India
- One of the Districts of New Zealand
- Council of the District of Columbia, local government of Washington, D.C.
- A Labour council at a district level
The District Council (Second) is a functional constituency in the elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong.
The District Council (First), formerly called District Council, is a functional constituency in the elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. It consists of all 431 member of the 18 District Councils of Hong Kong.
Usage examples of "district council".
Retford and Worksop apparently had had a contest to see which of them would house the headquarters of Bassetlaw District Council, and Worksop had clearly lost since the offices were there.
Now, though (and Mr Tiverton acquitted himself of snobbery because the district council had since put its eight houses on the market and had even succeeded in selling one to the sitting tenant), the ceremony was for the first-born of young Mr and Mrs Donald Pagetter, who had pots of money and a nice sense of style, and were related to the Lord Lieutenant of the county.
His remunerative gleanings ranged from scraps of unconscious humour in the officialese of the district council minutes to whimsical remarks by old gentlemen arraigned in the local magistrates’.
I rent a couple of rooms there for the business, in the same building as the Rural District Council, and the Waterworks Company.
I wonder what Edinburgh District Council would have said when they submitted plans for an office block with twenty storeys of stone cladding and a used-car lot in the forecourt.
Then he gets some sort of brain-storm because the local district council tells him to chop all his elm trees down.
Chairman of the parish council, too, and half the smaller farmers go around doffing their caps to him because if ever they put in for planning permission for anything, he's got a big pull with the district council.
Not sharing with Mr Pearce the privilege of membership of Pennick Rural District Council, she was unaccustomed to the somewhat dislocated language in which the affairs of that and similar authorities habitually are conducted.
There were a chorus of noisy protests to Bray Urban District Council and Wicklow County Council about this - some people insisting that the psychiatric hospital at Newcastle needed to look into its security.
The first, from an Oxford District Council, turned down my third application for planning permission for restoring the mansion with the beech tree growing in its drawing room.
To lease an alp, put up a cable railway on mortgage, with the engineers and the local district council participating - that, Bond knew, was one of the latest havens for fugitive funds.