Local Elections and Meetings (Postponement) Act, 1931

Postponement of certain annual and quarterly meetings of local authorities.

10.—(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in sections 8 and 9 of the Act of 1927, every annual meeting of the council of a county, the council of an urban district which is not a borough, or of the commissioners of a town which is required by virtue of those sections to be held during the period beginning on the 23rd day of June, 1932, and ending on the 1st day of July, 1932, shall be held at such hour on such day, not earlier than the 23rd day of August, 1932, nor later than the 1st day of September, 1932, as such council or commissioners shall appoint.

(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 10 of the Act of 1927, every quarterly meeting of the council of a county or other borough which is required by virtue of that section to be held during the period beginning on the 23rd day of June, 1932, and ending on the 1st day of July, 1932, shall be held at such hour on such day, not earlier than the 23rd day of August, 1932, nor later than the 1st day of September, 1932, as such council shall appoint.

(3) Section 11 of the Act of 1927 shall apply in respect of every annual meeting and every quarterly meeting the day for the holding of which is appointed under this section in like manner as if such day had been appointed under that Act.

(4) An annual meeting or a quarterly meeting held on a date appointed under this section shall for the purposes of the Act of 1927 be an annual meeting or a quarterly meeting (as the case may be) held on a date appointed under that Act.