HC Deb 07 March 1890 vol 342 cc257-8
MR. FRANCIS STEVENSON (Suffolk, Eye)

I beg to ask the Attorney General whether a member of a banking firm who acts as treasurer to a Local Board is debarred, by Clause 64, Schedule II., of "The Public Health Act, 1875," from being a member of that; Board; and whether the provision That no member shall vacate his office by reason of his being interested in the sale or lease of any lands or in the loan of money to the Local Board, is to be understood to remove any disqualification which might appear to be established in such a. case by the first portion of the clause?

Sir R. WEBSTER

I am unable to answer the hon. Member's question. The answer depends on facts which are not stated in the question, and without information as to them no definite opinion can be formed.