§ (1) As from the fifteenth day of May in the year nineteen hundred and fourteen a district board of lunacy shall cease to be so called, and shall be designated a district board of control.
§ (2) The Board may, by regulation, from time to time alter the number of members of district boards, and make provision as may be necessary for all matters arising out of or connected with such alteration, including provision for varying existing enactments as to the representation of any authority on a district board (not being the district board of a single parish) and any consequential provision, so far as such variation is necessary to meet the circumstances of any district where, owing to the number of authorities, difficulty would arise in constituting a district board.
§ (3) One-third as nearly as may be of the total number of members of a district board (not being the district board of a single parish) shall be elected annually by the chairmen of parish councils of parishes within the district in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Board, and from and after the date named in such regulations.
§ (4) A regulation under this Section shall not take effect until approved by the Secretary for Scotland.
§ (5) Nothing in this Section contained shall authorise the Board to make provision for the representation on a district board of any authorities other than county councils, town councils, or parish councils.
§ (6) Nothing in any statute contained shall operate to prevent the election to a district board, if the authority having the right to elect so determine, of persons who are not members of that authority.
§ (7) If a district board as constituted in pursuance of this Section contains no women, the district board shall co-opt not more than two women to be members of the board, and the number of the board shall be increased accordingly.
§ (8) The disqualifications for membership of a county council prescribed by Section 1685 9 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1889, shall, with the necessary variations, apply as disqualifications for membership of a district board, not being the district board of a single parish.
§ Amendment made: In Sub-section (5), at the end, insert the words "or to vary the proportion of the members to be elected by chairmen of parish councils."—[Mr. McKinnon Wood.]