In discussing the legislation to dissolve Dublin County Council, Avril Doyle TD said, " The Bill before us today effectively abolishes County Dublin, and as one born and bred in these parts of Ireland I find it rather strange that we in this House are abolishing County Dublin.

On 17 October 2006, the NSW Parliament passed legislation abolishing the rule against double jeopardy in cases where:

Crossman, opening the debate on 19 November, said the government would reform the Lords in five ways: removing the voting rights of hereditary peers ; making sure no party had a permanent majority ; ensuring the government of the day usually passed its laws ; weakening the Lords ' powers to delay laws ; and abolishing the power to refuse subordinate legislation if it had been voted for by the Commons.

He subsequently guided through legislation abolishing the closed shop, and campaigned vigorously for Thatcher in the first ballot of the 1990 Conservative Party leadership contest, although he told her a day before she resigned that he felt she wasn't going to win and that John Major was better placed to defeat Michael Heseltine.

* May 8: Judicial reforms partly abolishing the power of parlements to review legislation are forced through the parlements by Lamoignon in a lit de justice timed to coincide with military sessions

This led to Martin abolishing the controversial Groceries Order 1987, a piece of legislation which prohibited the sale of groceries below cost price.

Hess, despite now being a member of the New Left, had recently written some speeches for Goldwater and resumed their close personal relationship ; he had concluded that American men should not be forced into military service and urged Goldwater to submit legislation abolishing conscription.

During his successful campaign for the Senate on a platform of abolishing tariffs, he made a speech at Stateburg, South Carolina in September 1830 where he said " There are three and only three ways to reform our Congressional legislation, familiarly called, the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box ".

They introduced legislation abolishing all limitations based on religion and nationality and introduced an element of self-determination by transferring power from governor-generals to local representatives.

When legislation aimed at providing relief to the state's debtors was struck down by the Kentucky Court of Appeals, supporters of the legislation in the General Assembly passed a bill abolishing the Court and creating a new court, which they stocked with sympathetic justices.

True to his initial progressive leanings he moved ahead with stalled reforms, abolishing the death penalty, revoking anti-strike laws, limiting police powers, reforming the penal code and the administration of justice, reorganising charities and passing public health laws and legislation to protect emigrants that worked abroad.

Murphy also passed important legislation substantially abolishing appeals to the Privy Council, removing censorship, providing freedom of access to government information, reforming corporations and trade practices law, protecting the environment, abolishing the death penalty and outlawing racial and other discrimination.

In 1999, the Commonwealth Parliament passed legislation introducing a new broad-based Federal indirect tax, the Goods and Services Tax ; the revenue from this tax was to go entirely to the States and Territories in exchange for abolishing a range of other indirect taxes.

Following the enactment of the Statute of Westminster, in 1933 the federal Parliament passed legislation again abolishing the right of appeal in criminal matters.

Depretis enacted controversial legislation for the time, such was abolishing arrest for debt, making elementary education free and compulsory while ending compulsory religious teaching in elementary schools.

It was increasingly plausible that Labor would be able to gain a majority in the Legislative Council within a decade and then carry through their goal of abolishing it, and push through any electoral legislation it so wished.

Lemieux played an important role in abolishing seigneurial tenure, serving on the commission formed in 1851 and helping to prepare the legislation that put an end to it.

Its three bases were, first, ‘ direct legislation by the people ’ (‘ the most democratic form of government, while awaiting its complete abolition ’); second, a range of economic measures which included ‘ direct exchange ’ ( even though Déjacque admitted that this democratised property without abolishing exploitation ), the establishment of Owenite-type ‘ labour bazaars ,’ ‘ circulation vouchers ’ ( labour vouchers ) and a gradual attack on property ; and third, a democratisation of administrative functions ( revocability of public officials, who would be paid on the basis of the average price of a day ’ s work ) and the abolition of the police and the army.

Markell proposed and signed major educational reform initiatives, including abolishing the controversial Delaware Student Testing Program, establishing a pilot program to reward improving schools, and passing legislation to improve transparency and autonomy within school districts.

Three years later, these same opponents successfully lobbied the Connecticut General Assembly to pass legislation abolishing tolls on all of Connecticut's highways ( with the exception of two car ferries across the Connecticut River in Chester and Glastonbury ).

While the 1983 Stratford accident was cited as the main reason for abolishing tolls in Connecticut, the underlying reason was the fact that federal legislation at that time forbade states with toll roads from using federal funds for road projects.

The area formerly known as " County Dublin " is now defined in legislation solely as the " Dublin Region " under the Local Government Act, 1991 ( Regional Authorities ) ( Establishment ) Order, 1993, and this is the terminology officially used by the four Dublin administrative councils in press releases concerning the former county area.

In response to allegations that Michigan's militia fired upon Ohioans, Lucas called a special session of Ohio's Legislature on June 8, 1835 to pass several more controversial acts, including establishment of Toledo as the county seat of Lucas County, the establishment of a Court of Common Pleas in the city, a law to prevent the forcible abduction of Ohio citizens from the area and a budget of $ 300, 000 to implement the legislation.

In addition, unlike the fairly socially liberal Seattle suburbs, Clark County is apt to vote for some types of socially conservative legislation ( such as against legalising marijuana.

In the Fall of 1860, George Hayes, who was running for Representative from Cherokee County, promised his southeastern constituents to introduce legislation to form a new county.

In 2004 Carroll County voters approved legislation that will expand the number of County Commissioners from three to five.

In 1886, when Atlanta and Fulton County enacted temperance legislation, Pemberton found himself forced to produce a non-alcoholic alternative to his French Wine Coca.

The same legislation also created Citrus County from the northern third of Hernando County.

As such, the Board enacts all legislation and authorizes programs and expenditures within the County.

Hingham and Hull were originally part of the Norfolk County legislation but petitioned to remain in Suffolk county and in June 1793 their removal to Norfolk county was repealed.

Price County was created on March 3, 1879, when Wisconsin Governor William E. Smith signed legislation creating the county.

The Texas Legislature enacted legislation on January 22, 1858, creating Kimble County from what was previously part of Bexar County.

On December 14, 1837, the Second Congress of the Republic of Texas passed legislation changing the geographical limits, creating Fayette County, removing Gonzales and Caldwell Counties from the boundaries and, five months later, added parts of Kimble and Comal Counties.

In 1891, the North Dakota Legislature enacted legislation annexing Dunn County, Hettinger County, and parts of Billings, Bowman, McKenzie, Wallace, and Williams Counties into Stark.

Stark County claimed the annexation vote valid, since the legislation required a majority of the aggregate votes cast.

However, the North Dakota Constitution required a majority vote in each affected county subject to annexation, so the state of North Dakota sued Stark County on the grounds that the enabling legislation was unconstitutional and that the " no " vote in Dunn County meant the annexation failed.

In 1891, the North Dakota Legislature approved legislation to annex Hettinger County into neighboring Stark County, but the law was vetoed by Governor Eli C. D. Shortridge.

The residual constitutional powers retained by the Westminster parliament have now largely been superseded by subsequent legislation.

This proposed legislation would "... declare that any firearms made and retained in-state are beyond the authority of Congress under its constitutional power to regulate commerce among the states ".

Instead, because that requirement was removed through later legislation, the United States retained a dual banking system in which a large number of state chartered banks remained outside the Federal Reserve System.

In case of divorce, the rules for administering the Divorce Act were retained using Quebec's old community property matrimonial regime until 1980, when new legislation brought an automatic equal division of certain basic family assets between spouses.

In the most recent liturgical legislation enacted by the Holy See, the Institutio Generalis Romani Missalis 2000, the traditional distinction between the chancel and the nave of the church is retained and may be delimited by a number of options, including an altar rail.

The Viceroy nonetheless retained significant power over legislation.

Campus Central has retained autonomy through the VSU ( Voluntary Student Unionism ) legislation changes and continues to provide services to students, members and the Campus community.

Until the late 20th-century, the Company retained paramount responsibility for hallmarking platinum, gold and silver, but successive parliamentary legislation has devolved much authority to Government departments ..

Premier Haultain was resolutely opposed to this legislation since 1 ) he wanted one big province, not two provinces ; and 2 ) under the terms of the legislation, the federal government retained jurisdiction over public land.

" Black South Africans were not included, however, and over national affairs he ensured that the white chamber of parliament retained the last word in all matters: the representatives of the white chamber had a compulsory block-vote in the electoral college to choose the State President, who had the say over which of the three chambers, or which combination of them, should consider any piece of legislation.

But the legislation retained the Julian Calendar for the purpose of determining Tynwald Day: it provided that " Midsummer Tynwald Court shall be holden and kept ... upon or according to the same natural Days upon or according to which the same should have been so kept or holden ... in case this Act had never been made.

Following changes to Turkish land registry legislation in 2003 a large number of properties in Hatay were purchased by Syrian nationals, mostly people who had been residents of Hatay since the 1930s but had retained their Syrian citizenship and were buying the properties that they already occupied.

Northern Ireland does not have control of its own social security legislation, these functions having been retained by DWP and Westminster, however the Social Security Agency works in tandem with DEL to ensure welfare-to-work participants still receive state-funded benefits.

The Tsar retained an absolute veto over legislation, as well as the right to dismiss the Duma at any time, for any reason he found suitable.

Tokyo began electing its own mayor in 1898 but retained ward-level legislation, which continues to this day in the special ward system.

The federal government also retained the power to override legislation passed by the Assembly.

Even without Blakeney they retained some of their earlier Conservative-linked views, such loyalty to the king, anti-trade union legislation, free trade within the British Empire and a general preference for the rural, although these were bolstered by fascist-influenced policies such as limiting the franchise, gradual purification of the " English race " and stringent restrictions on immigration and the activities of immigrants admitted to Britain.

After the defeat of the McMahon government in 1972, Withers became Opposition Leader in the Senate, where he retained a thin majority and acted to block much of the Whitlam Government's legislation.

After Revolutionary legislation permitted, they divorced in 1793, but Labille-Guiard retained the name Guiard, and remains known to the art world as Labille-Guiard.

However, the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 ( RIPA ) also gives the Home Secretary powers to change the list of bodies with access to retained data through secondary legislation.

As the government chief whip in the House of Lords, he steered the governments ambitious programme of legislation, including the Human Rights Act, through the Lords, and was involved in the negotiations over the reform of the House of Lords that led to the compromise in the House of Lords Act 1999, which retained 92 hereditary peers in the first stage of reform.