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LOCAL GOVERNMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN
Great Britain is an unitar State consisting of 4 historical areas: England, Wales, Nothern Ireland and Scotland. England, Wales, Scotland have own Legal and court
systems, national churches and systems of bodies of Local government. Cabinet of Ministers of Great Britain includes State sectors on the affairs of Wales and Scotland. Nothern Ireland, on the basis of the Act on governing Ireland (1920), has limited rights of the administrative autonomy. Executive authority is done by a governor who is appointed by the king (queen); legislative body — two-chamber
Parliament consisting of the House of Commons (with 52 deputies, elected by inhabitants of Nothern Ireland) and the Senate (with 26 senators, elected by the House of Commons). Councils of counties, towns-counties and municipal town (with about 75 thousand population) include elders and others. Municipalities are in the rigid financial dependence on the central government.


E x e r c i s e 1. Make up sentences with the following words and expressions.

consist of, legal and court system, national churches, Cabinet of Ministers, include, state sectors, affair, on the basis of, to govern, limited rights, governor, appoint,

legislative body, population, financial dependence.
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Exercise 2. Answer the following questions according to the text «Local government of Great Britain».

1. What kind of state is Great Britain and what does it consist of? 2. What parts of Great Britain have own Legal and court systems, national churches and systems of

bodies of Local government? 3. What does Cabinet of Ministers of Great Britain include? What right does Nothern Ireland have? 4. Whom is executive authority done by? 5. What houses does the Parliament consist of? 6. What includes Elders and others?
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Lesson 15. THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT