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Rotherhithe 1898

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Rotherhithe]

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sistant overseers, the revocation of appointment of assistant overseers, any powers,
duties, or liabilities of overseers, and any powers, duties, or liabilities of a parish council,
and applying with the necessary modifications the provisions of this Act with reference
thereto.
3. Any order under this section may provide for its operation extending either
to the whole or to specified parts of the area of the borough or urban district, and may
make such provisions as seem necessary for carrying the order into effect.
6. The provisions of this section respectiag councils of urban districts shall apply
to the administrative county of London in like manner as if the district of each sanitary
authority in that county were an urban district, and the sanitary authority were the council
of that district.
And whereas by sub-section (10) of Section 3 of the Act it is enacted that with respect to
meetings of Parish Councils the provisions in the First Schedule to the Act shall have effect;
And whereas by Rule (11) of Part Two of the First Schedule to the Act it is provided as
follows:—
11. The parish council may, if they think fit, appoint one of their number to be vicechairman,
and the vice-chairman shall, in the absence or during the inability of the
chairman, have the powers and authority of the chairman.
And whereas we, the Local Government Board, have received an application from the
Yestry of the Parish of Rotherhithe, being a Sanitary Authority in the Administrative County
of London, for the issue of an Order conferring on the Yestry the power of a Parish Council
to appoint a Vice-Chairman;
Now therefore, in pursuance of the powers given to us by the Statutes in that behalf, we
Order as follows:
Article I.—We hereby confer on the Yestry of the Parish of Rotherhithe the power
of a Parish Council to appoint a Vice-Chairman.
Article II.—Rule (11) of Part Two of the First Schedule to the Act shall apply to
the said Parish as if the said Yestry were a Parish Council.
Given under the Seal of Office of the Local Government Board this Sixth day of
June in the year One thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.
HENRY CHAPLIN,
S. B. Provis, President.
Assistant Secretary.