District council (Northern Ireland)

FOIA Schedule I lists:

36 - A district council within the meaning of the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972

That Act establishes a council for each district established:

• in pursuance of the Local Government (Boundaries) Act (Northern Ireland) 1971 or
• by the 1972 Act.

Under section 1 of the Act, a district council is called "district District Council". Under section 2, districts can be declared to be boroughs, with the obvious effect on their names.

The Department of the Environment has a list of the current councils:

• Antrim Borough Council
• Ards Borough Council
• Armagh City and District Council
• Ballymena Borough Council
• Ballymoney Borough Council
• Banbridge District Council
• Belfast City Council
• Carrickfergus Borough Council
• Castlereagh Borough Council
• Coleraine Borough Council
• Cookstown District Council
• Craigavon Borough Council
• Derry City Council
• Down District Council
• Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council
• Fermanagh District Council
• Larne Borough Council
• Limavady Borough Council
• Lisburn City Council
• Magherafelt District Council
• Moyle District Council
• Newry and Mourne Council
• Newtownabbey Borough Council
• North Down Borough Council
• Omagh District Council
• Strabane District Council

2015 re-organisation

By virtue of the Local Government (Boundaries) Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 and SR 2012/421, the districts in Northern Ireland will be re-organised on the local goverment election day (the first Thursday in May) in 2015. The new districts will be:

• Antrim and Newtownabbey
• Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon
• Belfast
• Causeway Coast and Glens
• Derry and Strabane
• Fermanagh and Omagh
• Lisburn and Castlereagh
• Mid and East Antrim
• Mid Ulster
• Newry, Mourne and Down
• North Down and Ards