Section 14 Form of proceeding at annual elections.
United Kingdom
On the day of annual election for vestrymen and auditors in any parish adopting this Act, each parishioner then rated, and having been rated to the relief of the poor one year, desirous of voting, do meet at the place appointed for such election, then and there to nominate eight ratepayers of the said parish as fit and proper persons to be inspectors of votes, four of such eight to be nominated by the churchwardens, and the other four to be nominated by the meeting; and after such nomination the said parishioners shall elect such parishioners duly qualified as may be there proposed for the offices of vestrymen and auditors; and the chairman shall at such meeting declare the names of the parishioners who have been elected by a majority of votes at such meeting.
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Act repealed (Provinces of Canterbury and York except Channel Islands and Isle of Man) (1.6.1992) by Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 1992 (No. 1), s.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.