# Commissioners Clauses Act 1847, Section 25: Electors to vote in ward where their property qualification is situate but not to vote for more than one ward.


Where by the special Act the commissioners are directed to be elected for wards, every person entitled to vote in the election of commissioners shall vote for commissioners for that ward only wherein the property or part thereof in respect of which his name appears in the rate book is situate; and if any person be rated in respect of property situate in more than one ward, he may vote for commissioners for any one of such wards, but having so voted he shall not afterwards, at the same election, vote for a commissioner for any other ward; and any vote so afterwards given by him shall be void.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/10-11/16/section/25 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/commissioners-clauses-act-1847/section-25
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