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Payments to members of sanitary authority as counsel illegal.
3 & 4 Vict. c. 108.
15 & 16 Vict. c. 5.
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270. Any payment to any member of a sanitary authority or burial board for acting as counsel solicitor attorney or agent for such authority or board shall be illegal; and if any member of any such authority or board shall so act, or shall accept or hold any office or place of profit under such authority or board of which he is a member, or shall in any manner directly or indirectly be concerned in any bargain or contract entered into by or on behalf of such authority or board, or participate in the profits thereof, then and in every such case such person shall cease to be a member of such authority or board, and his office as such shall thereupon become vacant. The expression “bargain or contract” used in this section shall extend to and include such contracts only as if made by any person by, with, or on behalf of the town council of any borough would disqualify him from being elected, or being a councillor or an alderman, or a municipal commissioner of such borough according to the provisions of the Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Act, 1840, as explained and amended by the Municipal Corporations Act, 1852, and by any other Act or Acts.
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