Section 12 Notice to be given of annual election of vestrymen and auditors.
United Kingdom
On some Sunday, at least twenty-one days previously to the day of annual election of vestrymen, notice of election pursuant to this Act, signed by the churchwardens, shall be affixed to the principal doors of every church and chapel of the said parish, and at other usual places, in the following terms:
’Parish of [here insert name of parish].
The parishioners duly qualified according to the provisions of the Act of the second year of the reign of King William the Fourth, intituled “An Act” [here insert the title of the Act], are hereby required to meet at , on the day of , conformably to the provisions of the said Act, and then and there to consider of and elect fit and proper persons to be vestrymen and auditors of accounts of the parish of for the ensuing year; that is to say,
members of the vestry.
auditors of accounts.’
Notes on the whole Act
Textual amendments
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Act repealed (Provinces of Canterbury and York except Channel Islands and Isle of Man) (1.6.1992) by Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 1992 (No. 1), s. 17(2), Sch. 4 Pt.I;Instrument dated 27.5.1992 made by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York.