Local Government Act 1933

The Local Government Act 1933 was an Act of Parliament that consolidated and revised existing legislation that regulated local government in England (except the County of London) and Wales. It remained the principal legislation regulating local government until the Local Government Act 1972 took effect in 1974.

Among the innovations that effected government in Outer London (that is the built-up area outside the County of London falling within the administrative counties of Hertfordshire, Kent, Middlesex and Surrey) were:
 * The ability of county councils to make comprehensive "County Review Orders" and amalgamate urban and rural districts to form more coherent local government areas.
 * A simplified process by which Urban District Councils could apply for charters of incorporation to become Municipal Boroughs.

These powers were widely used with many new boroughs incorporated and the number of suburban local government districts reduced substantially. Most strikingly, in 1934 Middlesex County Council made an order abolishing the remaining rural districts in the county, making it the only entirely "urban" county ooutside the County of London.