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Cork City Management Act, 1929

First meeting of the Council and election of Lord Mayor.

6.—(1) The first meeting of the Council shall be a quarterly meeting and shall be held at noon on the appointed day.

(2) The Council shall at their first meeting and at the quarterly meeting thereof held next after every borough election elect one of their members to be the Lord Mayor of Cork (in this Act referred to as the Lord Mayor).

(3) The Lord Mayor shall continue in office until his successor shall have been elected at the quarterly meeting of the Council at which having regard to the provisions of the foregoing sub-section a Lord Mayor may be elected by the Council and such successor shall have made the declaration accepting office which is by the law for the time being in force in relation to the election of the Lord Mayor or Mayor of a county borough required to be made by a Lord Mayor-elect or Mayor-elect.

(4) The Town Clerk shall be the chairman of the first meeting of the Council until the Lord Mayor has been elected and has made the declaration aforesaid.

(5) The Town Clerk shall not be entitled to vote on any question which is to be decided at the first meeting of the Council by a vote of the members of the Council.

(6) Subject to the provisions of this section, the law for the time being in force in relation to the holding of quarterly meetings of the council of a county borough and to the meetings so held and to the election, tenure of office, powers, duties, privileges and remuneration of the Lord Mayor or the Mayor of a county borough shall apply to the holding of quarterly meetings of the Council and to the meetings so held and to the election, tenure of office, powers, duties, privileges and remuneration of the Lord Mayor.