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(6).—Is absent from meetings for more than six months
consecutively, except in case of illness, or for some
reason approved by the Council or Board.
(2).—A person will not be disqualified for election or for
being a member or chairman by reason of being
interested—
(a) In the sale or lease of any lands, or in any loan of
money to the Council or Board, or in any contract
with the Council for the supply from land, of
which he is owner or occupier, of stone, gravel, or
other materials for making or repairing highways
or bridges, or in the transport of materials for the
repair of roads or bridges in his own immediate
neighbourhood.
(b) In any newspaper in which any advertisement
relating to the affairs of the Council or Board is
inserted; or
(c) In any contract with the Council or Board as a
shareholder in any joint stock company; but he
is not to vote at any meeting of the Council or
Board on any question in which such company
are interested, except that in the case of a water
or other company, &c., the prohibition may be
dispensed with.
(7).—Where a Member of a Council becomes disqualified
for holding office or vacates his seat for absence, the
Council or Board is forthwith to declare the office to be
vacant, and signify the same by notice signed by three
Members, and countersigned by the Clerk of the
Council or Board, and notified in such manner as the
Council or Board directs, and the office is thereupon to
become vacant.
Sect. 46 (8).—Any person acting when disqualified or voting
when prohibited under the section is to be liable for
each offence, on summary conviction, to a fine not
exceeding £20.
Seet. 46 and Schedule 2.—The penal clause (Sect. 54) of the
Metropolis Local Management Act is repealed "as from
the appointed day" (8th Nov., 1894). Thus the
penalty to which a member is liable for voting when in