§ DATE OF CASUAL VACANCIES
§ Amendment made: No. 558, in page 57, line 8, at end add—
§ (2) Public notice of a casual vacancy in any such office as is referred to in subsection (1) above shall be given by the local authority in which the office exists; and the steps required to be taken to give public notice in accordance with section 225 below shall be taken—
- (a) in a case where the local authority declare the office to be vacant, immediately after the declaration; and
- (b) in any other case, as soon as practicable after the date on which, by virtue of subsection (1) above, the vacancy is deemed to have occurred.—[Mr. Graham Page.]