Fisheries Act, 1980

Failure to elect elected members of regional board.

16.—(1) If the electorate for a fisheries region in any election year elect no elected members under section 12 of this Act, the previously existing elected members of the regional board concerned shall continue in office and be deemed to have been elected as such elected members in that election year.

(2) If at an election under this Act the electorate for a fisheries region elect fewer elected members than the number which could have been elected at the election, then there shall be deemed to have occurred immediately after the meeting of the regional board concerned first held after the election—

(a) in case the number of members who could have been so elected exceeds by one the number of members who were so elected, a casual vacancy,

(b) in case the number of members who could have been so elected exceeds by two or more the number of members who were so elected, casual vacancies equal in number to the excess.