{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vestries-act-1831repealed-161992/section-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vestries-act-1831repealed-161992/section-22.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Will4/1-2/60",
  "legislation_title": "Vestries Act 1831(repealed 1.6.1992)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vestries-act-1831repealed-161992",
  "path": "section/22",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Elections to be annual.",
  "text": "In all parishes adopting this Act the meeting of parishioners for the election of the vestrymen and auditors of accounts by the parishioners shall take place in the month of May in every year: Provided always, that when a ballot is demanded at such election the same shall commence on the following day, and continue for three successive days, commencing at eight of the clock of the forenoon and closing at four of the clock in the afternoon of each day: Provided also, that the day on which such elections shall commence shall in the first instance be appointed by the churchwardens of the parish adopting this Act, but in every subsequent year shall be appointed by the vestry: Provided always, that when by reason of the populousness of any parish the said parish shall have been or shall be divided into districts for ecclesiastical or other purposes, then and in that case the said votes shall be taken, according to the aforesaid mode of election, in some convenient place, at the discretion of the churchwardens, in each of the several districts of the said parish.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Will4/1-2/60/section/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:52:20.915885+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}