Local Elections and Meetings (Postponement) Act, 1931

Extension of term of office of certain members of certain boards, etc.

6.—(1) This section applies—

(a) to every board, committee, or other body all or any of the members of which are required by law to be appointed triennially by the council of a county; and

(b) to those members of any such board, committee, or other body (whether constituting the whole or part only of the membership of such body) who are appointed by the council of a county a triennial election to which is postponed by this Act and whose term of office current at the passing of this Act would but for this section terminate on a date calculated by reference to such triennial election.

(2) The term of office current at the passing of this Act of those members to which this section applies of every board, committee, or other body to which this section applies is hereby extended until the day after the day on which is held the annual meeting next after the appointed day of the council by whom such members were appointed.

(3) Every doubt, question, and dispute as to whether any particular board, committee, or other body is or is not a board, committee, or other body to which this section applies or as to whether any particular member of any such body is or is not a member to whom this section applies shall be determined by the Minister whose decision thereon shall be final and conclusive.