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Constitution and election of the Borough Council.
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43.—(1) The Borough Council shall consist of fifteen members elected in accordance with this Act, of whom six members shall constitute a quorum.
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(2) A borough election shall be held in the year 1930 and in every third year thereafter and in no other year and at every borough election the borough shall form one electoral area.
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(3) In the year 1930 the borough election shall be held on the day of election and for the purposes of such election and for such purposes only the Borough shall be deemed to have been established on that day.
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(4) The Minister shall appoint a person to act as returning officer at the borough election held in the year 1930.
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(5) The several polling districts and polling places existing in the coastal urban districts at the passing of this Act shall be respectively the polling districts and the polling places for the purposes of the borough election held in the year 1930.
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(6) Subject to the foregoing provisions of this section and to the provisions of this Act for the filling of extraordinary vacancies, the law for the time being in force in relation to the election, qualification, disqualification, and tenure of office of members of the council of a borough shall apply in relation to the election, qualification, disqualification, and tenure of office of members of the Borough Council.
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(7) Save as is otherwise provided by this Act, the law for the time being in force in relation to the qualification and disqualification of persons for membership of any committee wholly or partly appointed by the council of a borough shall apply to the appointment by the Borough Corporation of persons to be members of any such committee and to such persons when so appointed.
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(8) For the purposes of the two next preceding sub-sections, a contract with the Borough Corporation shall be deemed to be a contract with the Borough Council and with every committee and joint committee appointed or partly appointed by the Borough Council, and a contract with any such committee or joint committee shall be deemed to be also a contract with the Borough Council, and, in relation to the borough election to be held in the year 1930, a contract with an abolished body of which the Borough Corporation is the successor or with any committee or joint committee appointed or partly appointed by any such body shall be deemed to be also a contract with the Borough Council.
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