§ MR. RADCLIFFE COOKE (Hereford)I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether, in the case where a parish meeting has had conferred on it all the powers of a parish council, in pursuance of section 19, subsection 10, of the Local Government Act, 1894, the decision on matters that may come before it is to be by a majority of the votes of the members present as at a Parish Council, or whether a poll may be demanded as at a parish meeting?
THE PRESIDENT OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr. SHAWLEFEVRE,) Bradford, CentralIt appears to the Local Government Board that any powers of a Parish Council conferred on the parish meeting under section 19 (10) of the Local Government Act, 1894, must be exercised by the parish meeting subject to the rules in part I. of the First Schedule to the Act, and that, consequently, a poll may be demanded of any question to be decided by the meeting in the exercise of such power.