Article 13 West Kent Main Sewerage Board

Subject to the provisions of the local Acts and orders applicable to the West Kent Main Sewerage Board (hereinafter referred to as “the Board”), the councils of the London boroughs of Bexley and Bromley shall be represented on the Board by seven members and nine members, respectively, of such councils. Councillors representing wards of such boroughs wholly within the sewerage area of the Greater London Council shall not be eligible for election as members or entitled to vote at the election of members.

Each of the said councils shall elect the number of members of the Board assigned to them by paragraph (1), to come into office on 1st April 1965 or if elected after that date on their election and to hold office until the annual meeting of the council in 1966. The clerk of the council shall forthwith notify to the secretary of the Board the names, addresses and descriptions of the members elected.

The members of the Board elected by the councils of the boroughs of Beckenham, Bexley, Bromley and Erith and the urban districts of Chislehurst and Sidcup, Crayford and Orpington shall retire on 1st April 1965.

The provision of section 87(7) of the Act shall not affect article VI of the West Kent Order confirmed by the Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 7) Act 1886.