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Ex officio guardians.
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23. Every justice of the peace residing in any such union, and acting for the county in which he so resides, and not being a stipendiary magistrate or assistant barrister, or a person in holy orders, or a regular minister of any religious denomination, shall be an ex officio guardian of the poor for such union; and (unless the commissioners shall by any order postpone, for such time as they shall see fit, the period at which such ex officio guardians shall act as such, which order the commissioners are hereby empowered to make and issue,) the said ex officio guardians shall, until a board of guardians be duly constituted, and also in case of any irregularity or delay in any subsequent election of guardians, by reason whereof there shall be no legally constituted board of guardians of such union, receive and carry into effect the orders of the commissioners; and after such board shall be constituted as aforesaid, every such justice shall ex officio act as a member of such board, in addition to and in like manner as an elected guardian.
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