Local Elections Act, 1927

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Annual meetings of county councils.

8.—(1) In every year in which a triennial election to a county council is held the annual meeting of such council shall be held at noon on the fourteenth day after the day of such election and in every other year the annual meeting of such council shall be held at such time on such day not earlier than the 23rd day of June nor later than the 1st day of July as such council shall fix.

(2) The first business at every annual meeting of the council of a county shall be the election of the chairman and vice-chairman, and every such chairman and vice-chairman shall come into office as soon after his election as he has made the declaration accepting office and shall continue in office until his successor has been elected and made the declaration accepting office.