Local Government Act, 1998
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Amendment of section 20 of Act of 1994. |
10.—(1) Section 20 of the Act of 1994 is hereby amended by the substitution of the following subsections for subsections (1) to (5): | |
“(1) (a) An election of members of every local authority shall be held in the year 1999 and every fifth year thereafter. | ||
(b) Nothing in this subsection shall affect Part IV of the Act of 1941, or any order made under that Part. | ||
(2) The term of office of the members of the council of every county and county borough current on the commencement of section 10 of the Local Government Act, 1998, shall stand extended so as to be in accordance with the holding in the year 1999 of the elections of the members of such councils next after such commencement. | ||
(3) The appointments next after the commencement of section 10 of the Local Government Act, 1998, under section 10 of the School Attendance Act, 1926 , shall be made in the year 1999 and shall be regarded as quinquennial appointments. | ||
(4) The term of office of the members of a harbour authority (within the meaning of the Harbours Act, 1946 ), other than those members referred to in section 15, current on the commencement of section 10 of the Local Government Act, 1998, shall stand extended so as to terminate in the year 1999 and be in accordance with this section and section 14 (2) of the Harbours Act, 1946 . | ||
(5) The term of office of the members of a vocational education committee, other than those members referred to in section 16, current on the commencement of section 10 of the Local Government Act, 1998, shall stand extended so as to terminate in the year 1999 and be in accordance with this section and section 10 (3) of the Vocational Education Act, 1930 .”. | ||
(2) Nothing in— | ||
(a) subsection (3) (inserted by subsection (1)) of section 20 of the Act of 1994 shall operate to prejudice the power of any person, conferred by or under section 10 of the School Attendance Act, 1926 , to appoint persons to fill casual vacancies among the membership of a school attendance committee, | ||
(b) any provision to the like effect to the said subsection (3) contained in an Act passed before the commencement of this section shall be regarded as having operated to prejudice the power aforesaid. |