# Vestries Act 1831(repealed 1.6.1992), Section 26: Qualifications of vestrymen.

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

The vestry elected under this Act in any parish not within the metropolitan police district or the city of London shall consist of resident householders rated or assessed to the relief of the poor upon a rental of not less than ten pounds; and no person shall be capable of acting as one of the said vestry unless he shall be the occupier of a house, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, rated or assessed upon the afore-mentioned amount of rental within the parish for which he is to serve: Provided always, that if the parish adopting this Act should be within the metropolitan police district or the city of London, or if the resident householders therein should amount to more than three thousand, then and in that case the vestry elected under this Act shall consist of resident householders rated or assessed to the relief of the poor of such parish upon a rental of not less than forty pounds per annum.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Will4/1-2/60/section/26 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/vestries-act-1831repealed-161992/section-26
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