Paragraph 19

(1)

Minutes of the proceedings of a parish meeting, or a committee thereof, shall be drawn up and entered in a book provided for the purpose and shall be signed at the same or the next following assembly of the parish meeting, or, as the case may be, meeting of the committee, by the person presiding at the meeting, and any minute purporting to be so signed shall be received in evidence without further proof.

(2)

Until the contrary is proved, a parish meeting, or a meeting of a committee thereof, in respect of the proceedings of which a minute has been made and signed as mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) above shall be deemed to have been duly convened and held, and all the persons present at the meeting shall be deemed to have been duly qualified, and where the proceedings are those of a committee, the committee shall be deemed to have been duly constituted and to have had power to deal with the matters referred to in the minutes.

Notes on Schedule 12

Modifications

C1

Sch. 12 modified (5.11.2008) by The Local Elections (Ordinary Day of Elections in 2009) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2857), art. 6

C2

Sch. 12 excluded by Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51, SIF 81:1), ss. 1, 86(9)

C3

Sch. 12 modified by S.I. 1987/2110, art. 2(2), Sch. 1 para. 2(4)

C4

Sch. 12 applied with modifications by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1), s. 160(2)

Sch. 12: power conferred to make provisions about matters of the kind dealt with in this Schedule (1.9.1997) by 1997 c. 50, s. 44(1), Sch. 4(a)(ii); S.I. 1997/1930, art. 2(1)(2)(m)

C5