Veterinary Surgeons Act, 1931

Terms of office of elected members of the Council.

10.—(1) The four general elected members of the Council elected at the first election of members of the Council shall (unless they sooner die, resign or become disqualified) respectively hold office as such members for the following periods reckoned in every case from the final establishment of the Council, that is to say, the first in seniority of such members shall hold office for four years, and the second, third and fourth in seniority of such members shall respectively hold office for three years, two years, and one year.

(2) The limited elected member of the Council elected at the first election of members of the Council shall (unless he sooner dies, resigns or becomes disqualified) hold office for four years from the final establishment of the Council.

(3) Save as is otherwise provided in the foregoing sub-sections of this section and subject to the provisions of this section in relation to persons elected to fill casual vacancies, every elected member of the Council shall (unless he sooner dies, resigns or becomes disqualified) hold his office as such member for the term of four years reckoned from the expiration of the term of office of his predecessor.

(4) A member of the Council elected at an annual election to fill a casual vacancy in the Council shall, unless he sooner dies, resigns, or becomes disqualified, hold office for the residue of the term 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.

(5) An elected member of the Council shall not, during his term of office as such member, be eligible to be a candidate for election as a member of the Council, save that every elected member of the Council shall, if otherwise qualified, be eligible for election at or before the expiration of his term of office to become and be an elected member of the Council at such expiration.