Pigs and Bacon Act, 1935

Filling of casual vacancies amongst ordinary members of the Bacon Marketing Board.

84.—(1) Whenever a vacancy (in this section referred to as a casual vacancy) occurs in the membership of the Board by reason of the death, resignation or disqualification of an ordinary member thereof, the Chairman shall notify the Minister of such vacancy, and the Minister shall, as soon as may be, appoint, in case there are any substitutive members representative of the same class of curers as such ordinary member, one of such substitutive members or, in any other case, such person as he thinks proper to fill such vacancy.

(2) A substitutive member appointed to fill a casual vacancy shall thereupon cease to be a substitutive member.

(3) Every person appointed to fill a casual vacancy shall unless he sooner dies, resigns, or becomes disqualified, hold office as an ordinary member for the residue of the term of office for which the member whose death, resignation or disqualification occasioned the vacancy would have held office if he had not died, resigned, or become disqualified.