{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vestries-act-1831repealed-161992/section-33",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vestries-act-1831repealed-161992/section-33.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  "legislation_title": "Vestries Act 1831(repealed 1.6.1992)",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/33",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "33",
  "heading": "Auditors to be chosen annually.",
  "text": "In any and every parish adopting this Act the parishioners duly qualified to vote for vestrymen as aforesaid shall elect five ratepayers of the said parish, who shall have signified in writing their assent to serve, to be auditors of accounts, which auditors shall be so elected on the first day on which the vestrymen be chosen after such parish shall have adopted this Act, and according to the same forms of voting as are herein-before prescribed for the election of the said vestry: Provided always, that no person shall be eligible to fill the said office of auditor of accounts who shall not be qualified according to the provisions of this Act, as herein-before stated, to fill the office of vestryman for the said parish; and provided always, that no person shall be eligible to fill the said office of auditor of accounts who shall be one of the vestry for the said parish; and if any person on the day of annual election shall be chosen to be both a member of the vestry and an auditor of accounts, the said vestry at their first meeting after such election shall declare the said person incapable of acting as vestryman: Provided also, that no person shall be eligible to fill the said office of auditor of accounts who shall be interested either directly or indirectly in any contract, office, business, or employ, or in providing or supplying any materials or articles for the parish for which he is to serve; and any person who shall be discovered, after his election, to be so interested, shall cease to be an auditor.",
  "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/33",
    "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."
}