Public Health Act 1848

Regulations as to the Number of Persons to be selected or elected Members of Local Boards.

In case of Vacancies, remaining Members may act.

Persons both selected and elected, &c. to serve in respect of One Title only.

XIV. And be it enacted, That the Number of Persons to be selected or elected for the whole or any Part of a District shall from Time to Time be regulated by such Order in Council or Provisional Order as aforesaid (as the Case may require), due Regard being had to the Size and Circumstances of each District, as may appear to be just and proper; and that any Member of the Local Board of Health, after going out of Office, resigning, or otherwise ceasing to be such Member, may, if otherwise qualified, be again selected or elected (as the Case may require); and in the event of any Vacancy in the Number of Persons elected, by Death, Resignation, or otherwise, between the Times appointed for Election as aforesaid, or if at any Time the said Local Board be without its full Number of Members, the remaining Members shall continue and be as competent to act until the Time appointed for Election, or until the full Number is selected or elected, (as the Case may require,) as if no Vacancy had occurred; and if any Person be both selected and elected to be a Member of the Local Board of Health he shall, within Three Days after Notice thereof from the Clerk, choose, or in default of such Choice the Local Board of which he is so selected and elected to be Member shall determine, the Title in respect of which he shall serve, and immediately upon such Choice or Determination the Person so selected and elected shall be deemed to be Member only in respect of the Title so chosen or determined, and his Office as Member in respect of any other Title shall thereupon become vacant.