# Cambridge University Act 1856, Section 10: For supply of periodical vacancies in Council. Members vacating may be re-elected.


The places of the members of the Council vacating their seats shall be supplied by a new election, to be made on the seventh of November, or in case the seventh of November should be Sunday on the eighth of November, in every other year, in the same manner as is herein-before prescribed as to the election to take place on the seventh day of November one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, save only that all members of the Council to be then elected shall be elected to hold office for four years; and all members so vacating their seats shall (if otherwise eligible) be capable of re-election.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/19-20/88/section/10 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/cambridge-university-act-1856/section-10
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