21 Annual meeting for election of commissioners.U.K.
For the purpose of electing commissioners from time to time in the place of those who go out by rotation, a meeting of the persons entitled to vote at such election shall be held at the prescribed place, and if no place be prescribed at the principal office of the commissioners, on the prescribed day, or if no day be prescribed on the first Thursday in the month of September in the year following that in which the special Act is passed, and on the first Thursday in September in each succeeding year, or, if the commissioners are to be elected for wards, a meeting of the persons entitled to vote in each ward shall on the same day be held at some place to be appointed by the commissioners, of which meetings, and the time and place of holding the same, public notice shall be given by the clerk by advertisement, and also by placards affixed on the principal doors of the parish churches or other public places in the town, seven clear days at the least before the day of election, and at such meeting or meetings the election of commissioners shall take place as herein-after mentioned.