c. 105) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that provided a mechanism to enable the various liberties or independent jurisdictions in England and Wales to be merged into the geographical counties in which they lay.

Throughout England and Wales there were numerous liberties which were for historic reasons, to varying degrees, independent of the administration of the authorities of the county in which they lay.

By the nineteenth century it had become clear that their continued existence was causing inefficiencies in local government and frustrating the effective administration of justice.

Notice of the resolution to prepare the petition was to be published for three successive weeks in both a London newspaper and one circulating in the county involved.

The notice would detail the areas involved, and the parishes formerly in the liberty would be annexed to existing hundreds and petty sessional divisions of the county.