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85 Vacation of office by failure to attend meetings. E+W
(1)Subject to subsections (2) and (3) below, if a member of a local authority fails throughout a period of six consecutive months from the date of his last attendance to attend any meeting of the authority, he shall, unless the failure was due to some reason approved by the authority before the expiry of that period, cease to be a member of the authority.
(2)Attendance as a member at a meeting of any committee or sub-committee of the authority, or at a meeting of any joint committee, joint board or other body by whom for the time being any of the functions of the authority are being discharged, or who were appointed to advise the authority on any matter relating to the discharge of their functions, and attendance as representative of the authority at a meeting of any body of persons, shall be deemed for the purposes of subsection (1) above to be attendance at a meeting of the authority.
(3)A member of any branch of Her Majesty’s naval, military or air forces when employed during war or any emergency on any naval, military or air force service, and a person whose employment in the service of Her Majesty in connection with war or any emergency is such as, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, to entitle him to relief from disqualification on account of absence, shall not cease to be a member of a local authority by reason only of a failure to attend meetings of the local authority if the failure is due to that employment.
[F1(4)In this section “local authority” includes a joint authority . . . F2]
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F2Words repealed by Education Reform Act 1988 (c. 40, SIF 41:1), ss. 231(7), 235(6), 237(2), Sch. 13 Pt. I
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C1S. 85 applied by Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Act 1988 (c. 4, SIF 81:1), ss. 9(10), 23(2), 27(2), Sch. 4 para. 3
C2S. 85 applied (07.08.1991) by S.I. 1991/1773, arts. 6, 8, Sch. 1
S. 85: certain functions transferred (subject to modifications) (07.08.1991) by S.I. 1991/1773, arts. 6, 8, Sch. 1
C3S. 85 applied (10.01.1992) by S.I. 1991/2913, arts. 6, 8, Sch. 1.
S. 85: certain functions transferred (subject to modifications) (10.01.1992) by S.I. 1991/2913, arts. 6, 8, Sch.1.
S. 85 extended (19.9.1995) by 1995 c. 25, ss. 63(5), 125(2), Sch. 7 para. 8 (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117, Sch. 8 para. 7)
C4S. 85(4) modified by S.I. 1987/2110, art. 2(2), Sch. 1 para. 3(c)
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