 Provision for the continuation of city and borough status was included in the Act, which provided that the charter of each county borough should apply to the new district containing it, and that the "council for a district which includes the whole or the major part of a borough other than a county borough may... resolve that the charter of the corporation of the borough shall have effect in relation to the district".In addition a district council could apply for a new charter making it a borough.In the original Act, the council could petition the Governor of Northern Ireland for a royal charter.