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Union of offices of chairman.
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85. The number of chairmen (including the recorders) shall, so soon as practicable, be reduced to twenty-one, and for the purpose of making such reduction, the Lord Lieutenant may, whenever any office mentioned in Schedule E. to this Act shall become or be vacant, by order direct that such office shall be united with any other office or offices in the said schedule specified in that behalf, and the holder for the time being of any such other office or offices appointed after the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, or who shall consent thereto, may thereupon be appointed by the Lord Lieutenant to the united office, and if such appointment shall not be so made, then whenever such other office or offices shall become or be vacant; and whenever from time to time thereafter the united office shall become or be vacant, the Lord Lieutenant shall appoint one duly qualified person to hold the united office. From and after each such appointment the chairman or other person appointed to the united office shall have and perform all the jurisdiction and duties conferred or imposed by this or any other Act on the holder of each and every office included in the union, and all the provisions of this and any other Act relating to such jurisdiction or duties, or otherwise to the office of chairman of any county included in the union, shall extend and be applied to the united office, and to the jurisdiction and duties of the person for the time being holding the same. Whenever any office mentioned in the said schedule shall become or be vacant, and it shall not be deemed expedient or found practicable immediately to unite the office so vacant with any other office with which it is ultimately to be united, or then immediately to appoint one person to the offices so ultimately to be united, the Lord Lieutenant may appoint any chairman appointed after the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, or who shall consent thereto, to be temporary holder of such vacant office, but such appointment shall be determinable by order of the Lord Lieutenant whenever thereafter it shall be deemed expedient and found practicable to appoint one person to the offices so to be united, and the said offices shall from and after such appointment be and remain united. The Lord Lieutenant, by and with the advice and consent of the Privy Council, may for the purpose of equalising the duties of the several chairmen and recorders from time to time by order separate any offices theretofore united, or vary any union or unions in the said schedule specified, or form any other or different union or unions instead thereof, and may include in any such union any office of chairman or recorder, whether mentioned in the said schedule or not: Provided, that the number of chairmen, including the recorders, shall not be reduced by the union of offices below twenty-one, and shall not after reduction be in any case again increased.
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The annual salary payable to the holder of each such union of offices as aforesaid, and also to the chairman, not being a recorder, of each county not mentioned in the said Schedule E, shall be one thousand four hundred pounds per annum, and shall be paid out of the same funds and in the same manner as and in substitution for the salaries theretofore payable to the holders of the several offices included in such union and to the chairman aforesaid respectively. No additional salary shall be payable to any chairman appointed after the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four for or in respect of any jurisdiction or duties conferred or imposed, or hereafter to be [1]
incurred or imposed, upon them in bankruptcy or Admiralty matters.
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Until the number of chairmen shall have been reduced to twenty-one, whenever a vacancy shall occur in the office of chairman of any county, provision shall, if practicable, be made for the discharge of the duties of such office by moving thereto a chairman of some other county, or by means of the powers contained in this section.
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