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Appointment of commissioners.
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48.—(1) For the purposes of enabling a local authority whose members have been removed from office to function during the period between such removal from office and the coming into office of the members elected at a new election, the Minister shall from time to time appoint one or more persons to be the commissioner or commissioners for such local authority.
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(2) The Minister may—
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(a) remove any commissioner for a local authority appointed under this section and appoint another person to be commissioner for such local authority in his place,
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(b) where there are one or more commissioners appointed under this section for a local authority, appoint one or more persons to be additional commissioners for such local authority, and
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(c) where there are two or more commissioners appointed under this section for a local authority, reduce the number of such commissioners and for that purpose remove one or more of such commissioners.
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(3) In the subsequent sections of this Part of this Act the word “commissioner” means a commissioner appointed under this section.
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