Union of Parishes Act, 1827

For Election of Parish Officers in such Parts of the Union as are vacant.

VII. And be it further enacted, That after Presentation and Institution or Collation, and also Induction of any Clerk or Incumbent to any such united Parish, such Clerk or Incumbent, with the Parishioners and Inhabitants of such Parish or Parts of a Parish which shall be then vacant and become Part of such united Parish, shall proceed to the Election and Appointment of Churchwardens and other Parish Officers, as by Law they might have done if the other Parts of such united Parish had become void; which Churchwardens and other Parish Officers shall from time to time be elected and appointed in manner required by Law, as Churchwardens and other Parish Officers are in other Parishes elected and appointed, till the other Parts of such united Parish shall become void; and after such Avoidance the Election and Appointment of such Churchwardens and other Parish Officers of such united Parish shall be in the same Manner, and at the same Time, and by the same Persons, as is required by Law in the other Parishes of the Diocese in which such united or newly-erected Parish lies and is situated.