{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vestries-act-1831repealed-161992/section-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vestries-act-1831repealed-161992/section-24.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  "legislation_title": "Vestries Act 1831(repealed 1.6.1992)",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/24",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Proportion of existing vestry to go out of office at each three first elections under this Act.",
  "text": "At the first election for vestrymen after the adoption of this Act in any parish one third of the then existing vestry, or the nearest number thereto, but not exceeding the same, shall retire from office (such portion to be determined by lot), and the parishioners duly qualified shall elect a number of vestrymen equal to one third of the vestry to be chosen according to the provisions of this Act; and on the next ensuing annual election for vestrymen one half, or as nearly as may be one half of the remaining part of the first aforesaid vestry shall retire from office (such portion to be determined by lot), and the parishioners duly qualified shall again elect a number of vestrymen equal to one third of the vestry to be chosen according to the provisions of this Act; and on the next, that is to say, the third annual election for vestrymen, the last remaining portion of the vestry as aforesaid shall retire from office, and the parishioners duly qualified shall elect vestrymen in like manner and number as at the two preceding elections, so as to fill up the vestry to the exact number of vestrymen prescribed by this Act.",
  "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/24",
    "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."
}