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It is presumed that under Section 48, the provisions of the
Ballot Act, 1872, and the Municipal Elections (Corrupt and Illegal
Practices) Act, 1884, and Sections 74 and 75 and Part IV. of the
Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, as amended by the last-mentioned
Act (including the penal provisions of those Acts) are to
apply, subject to certain alterations to be made by the rules, to be
issued by the Local Government Board.
By Section 48(4) the provisions of the Municipal Corporations
Act, 1882, and the enactments amending the same, with respect
to the expenses of elections, and to the acceptance of office
resignation, re-eligibility of holders of office, and the filling of
casual vacancies, are, subject to certain adaptations to be made by
the said rules, to apply to elections of members of Vestries under
the Metropolis Management Acts.
Should any difficulty arise with respect to the holding of the
first election, or should an election be defective or otherwise, or
should any default occur in the election of Vestrymen or Auditors,
the County Council are empowered (Sec. 48 (5) and Sec. 80 (1)
to order a new election, or do anything which appears to them
expedient for properly constituting the local authority.
The expenses of any election are to be regulated by the
County Council, and are not to exceed the scale fixed by the
Council, and if at the beginning of one month before the first
election the County Council have not framed a scale, the Local
Government Board are empowered to frame such scale, which
shall not be alterable until after the first election.
I have not deemed it necessary to detail the provisions of the
Ballot Act, 1872, the Municipal Elections (Corrupt and Illegal
Practices) Act, 1884, and the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882,
which are applied to Vestry elections, as it is not known to what
extent these may be varied or modified by the rules to be issued
by the Local Government Board. Many of these provisions are
very important, dealing, as they do, with the expenses of cand
dates, the acceptance of office, resignation, casual vacancies, and
other matters in connection with the election.
The first election under the Act is, according to section 84,
to take place on the 8th day of November next, or such later date