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CONTENTS.
MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS ACT, 1882.
[45 & 46 Vict., c. 50.]
Section
14. Number, term of office, and rotation of aldermen
15. Qualification, term of office, salary, precedence, and
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Meetings and Proceedings of Council; Committees.
22. Quarterly and other meetings of council; appointment
Division of Borough into Wards, or alteration of Wards.
30. Proceedings for division of borough into wards or altera-
33. Rules as to qualification of burgess on succession, &c.
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34. Obligation to accept office or pay fine
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35. Declaration on acceptance of office
36. Fine on resignation, &c.
37. Re-eligibility of office holders
38. Mayor and aldermen to continue members of council
39. Avoidance of office by bankruptcy or absence
40. Filling of casual vacancies
41. Penalty on unqualified person acting in office
42. Validity of acts done notwithstanding disqualifica-
tion, &c.
43. Duties of town clerk, deputy, and treasurer during
vacancy or incapacity.
PART III.
PREPARATIONS FOR AND PROCEDURE AT ELECTIONS.
Parish Burgess Lists; Burgess Rolls; Wards Rolls.
44. Preparation and revision of parish burgess lists
45. The burgess roll and ward rolls
46. Arrangement of lists and rolls
47. Correction of burgess roll
48. Printing and sale of burgess roll and other documents
49. Separate list of persons qualified to be councillors but
Election of Councillors.
not to be burgesses
50. Borough and ward elections
51. Title to vote
52. Day of election
53. Returning officer at election
54. Notice of election
55. Nomination of candidates
56. Relation of nomination to election
57. Publication of uncontested election
58. Mode of conducting poll at contested election
59. Questions which may be put to voters
62. Time and mode of election of auditors and assessors
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67. Illness, &c. of mayor or returning officer
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71. Burgess roll to be in operation until revision of new
76. Revival of former law on expiration of Ballot Act
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PART IV.
CORRUPT PRACTICES AND ELECTION PETITIONS.
Corrupt Practices.
77. Definitions
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78. General penalties for corrupt practices
79. Disqualifications and avoidance of election for corrupt
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practices by candidates
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80. Disqualifications and avoidance of election for corrupt
practices by agents, and for offences against this Part.
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