Section 2 Application of Act, and Definition of "Local Authority", "Local Rate", and "Clerk of Local Authority".

This Act shall apply only to the Places named in the First Column of Table (A.) in the First Schedule annexed hereto; and " Local Authority," " Local Rate," and " Clerk of Local Authority " shall mean "the Bodies of Persons," "Rate," and "Officer" in that Table in that Behalf mentioned; and the said Table shall be of the same Force as if it were enacted in the Body of this Act: Provided always, that this Act shall not apply to any City, Borough, Town, or Place that would otherwise be included within the said Table, the Population whereof does not according to the Census for the Time being in force amount to the Number of Ten thousand Persons.