Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1854

Day for Election of Commissioners.

XXIII. The Day upon which One Third of the Commissioners elected under this Act shall annually go out of Office, as herein-after provided, shall be the Fifteenth Day of October in each Year, or the next lawful Day thereto, and on the same Day annually the Places of Commissioners going out of Office shall be supplied by an equal Number of newly elected Commissioners, to be chosen from among the Householders or Occupiers of the Town, qualified to be Commissioners, as herein-after prescribed; and where the Town is divided into Wards, the Place of each Commissioner going out of Office shall in all Cases under this Act be filled up by the Ward which returned him: Provided always, that if such First Election of Commissioners under this Act shall take place before the Fifteenth Day of October in the Year of such Election, the Commissioners then first elected shall all continue in Office until the Fifteenth Day of October in the Year next ensuing that in which such Election shall have been held, or the next lawful Day afterwards.