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Provisional Order (Ealing Extension).

A.D. 1928. collected and recovered by the Rural Council as the Rating Authority but shall be a matter for adjustment under this

Ealing Order. Order.

New ward of

Parish of Ealing and additional guardian.

Rural district councillor

for Northolt.

PART V.

PROVISIONS CONSEQUENT ON ALTERATION OF UNIONS. 40.-(1) The number of elective guardians of the Brentford Union who represent the Parish of Ealing shall be increased from ten to eleven.

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(2) The Northolt Ward of the Borough constituted by this Order shall also be a ward of the Parish of Ealing for the election 10 of guardians and shall be represented by one guardian.

(3) The guardian for the Northolt Ward shall retire from office on the Fifteenth day of April in the year Nineteen hundred and thirty-one and in every third year thereafter.

41.-(1) The person who immediately before the appointed 15 day is in office as the rural district councillor for the existing Parish of Northolt shall on the appointed day cease to be a rural district councillor or guardian for that Parish and shall become a guardian of the Brentford Union and shall represent the Northolt Ward of the Parish of Ealing but shall retire from office 20 on the Fifteenth day of April Nineteen hundred and thirty-one.

(2) If immediately before the appointed day a casual vacancy shall exist in the office of rural district councillor for the existing Parish of Northolt the vacancy in that office shall not be filled and the vacancy shall on the appointed day be 25 deemed to have arisen in the office of guardian for the Northolt Ward of the Parish of Ealing.

(3) The number of rural district councillors for the Rural District shall be reduced by one.

Qualification 42. For the purposes of section 6 of the Poor Law Act 1927 30 of guardians. which relates to the qualification of guardians the added area shall be deemed to have formed part of the Brentford Union as from the First day of September Nineteen hundred and twenty

Settlement and irremovability.

seven.

43.-(1) Every person who at any time before the appointed 35 day has acquired or who immediately before that day is in the course of acquiring a settlement in the existing Parish of Ealing or in the existing Parish of Northolt by reason of residence birth or other qualification in the existing Parish of Ealing or the added area shall be deemed to have acquired or to be in the course of 40 acquiring a settlement in the Parish of Ealing.

(2) Every person who at any time before the appointed day has acquired or who immediately before that day is in the course

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of acquiring a status of irremovability from the existing Brentford A.D. 1928. Union or the existing Uxbridge Union by reason of residence in

the existing Parish of Ealing or the added area shall be deemed Ealing Order. to have acquired or to be in the course of acquiring a status of 5 irremovability from the Brentford Union.

(3) For the purposes of this article consecutive periods of residence in any portions of the existing Parish of Northolt shall be aggregated and reckoned as continuous residence in that part of the existing parish in which the person was residing 10 immediately before the appointed day.

44. (1) The liability for the cost accruing on and after Liabilities the appointed day of the maintenance in any institution for and property lunatics or other institution of any person who may be chargeable of Uxbridge immediately before the appointed day to the Guardians of the 15 Uxbridge Union and—

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(a) who by reason of residence birth or other qualification
in the added area has acquired a settlement in the
existing Parish of Northolt or a status of irremovability
from the Uxbridge Union; or

(b) who resided in the added area immediately before he
last became chargeable to the Guardians of the Uxbridge
Union;

shall by virtue of this Order be transferred to and attach to
the Guardians of the Brentford Union.

(2) Any property debts and liabilities which immediately before the appointed day are vested in or attach to the Guardians of the Uxbridge Union in relation to the added area conjointly with the remainder of the Uxbridge Union shall be a matter for adjustment under this Order with the Guardians of the Brentford 30 Union.

Guardians.

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PART VI.
OFFICERS.

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45. In this Part of this Order and in the provisions applied Meaning in by this Part of this Order unless the context otherwise requires- this Part of "Local authority" means a local authority as defined in authority section 3 of the Local Government and other Officers' and "officer." Superannuation Act 1922 and includes the standing joint committee of a county;

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"Officer" includes a servant and any person whose
remuneration is paid by a local authority and any
teacher employed in a public elementary school which
is maintained by a local education authority.

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Provisional Order (Ealing Extension).

46. The town clerk and all other officers of the Corporation of the existing Borough who hold office immediately before the Ealing Order. appointed day shall continue to be the town clerk and officers of the Corporation of the Borough and shall hold their offices by Corporation the same tenure as before that day.

Officers of

continued.

Compensation to existing officers.

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47.-(1) Every officer in office on the passing of the Act of Parliament confirming this Order who by virtue of this Order or of anything done in pursuance or in consequence thereof suffers any direct pecuniary loss by abolition of office or by diminution or loss of fees salary or emoluments (and for whose 10 compensation no other provision is made by any enactment for the time being in force) shall be entitled to compensation for that loss from the Corporation.

(2) Any officer whose services are dispensed with or whose fees salary or emoluments are reduced within five years after 15 the appointed day because his services are not required or his duties are diminished in consequence of this Order and not on the ground of misconduct shall be deemed unless the contrary is shown to have suffered a direct pecuniary loss in consequence of this Order.

(3) Articles 55 to 57 of the Ealing (Extension) Order 1926 shall extend to the determination award and payment of compensation under this Order with such modifications as may be necessary:

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Provided that

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(a) there shall be added to subsection (7) of section 120
of the Act of 1888 as modified by paragraph (2) of
article 55 of that Order the words "For the purposes.
"of this subsection a teacher in a public elementary
"school maintained but not provided by a council 30
"shall be deemed to hold an office under the
"council";

(b) for the purposes of paragraph (4) of article 55 of that
Order the offices of superintendent registrar registrar
of births and deaths and registrar of marriages shall 35
be deemed to be offices under a local authority; and

(c) all fees or remuneration received and retained by an
officer in connection with the preparation of the
jurors book or the register of electors under the
Representation of the People Acts 1918 to 1926 40
shall subject to a reasonable deduction for any
expenses incurred by the officer be regarded as part
of the emoluments of the officer for the purpose of
compensation.

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PART VII.

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Ealing Order,

SUPPLEMENTARY.

electors

48.-(1) The Registration Officer of the Parliamentary Duplicate County of Middlesex shall supply the Registration Officer of the entries in 5 Parliamentary Borough of Ealing on publication with a sufficient lists. number of copies of the electors lists the lists of objections to the electors lists the lists of claimants and the lists of objections to claimants for each registration unit comprising any part of the added area and shall forthwith notify the Registration Officer 10 of the said Parliamentary Borough of his decisions on any objections or claims in respect of any such registration unit.

(2) It shall be the duty of the Registration Officer of the Parliamentary Borough of Ealing to issue such notices and otherwise to take such steps as are required by Rule 23 in the 15 First Schedule to the Representation of the People Act 1918 in order to secure that no person is registered as a local government elector in respect of more than one qualification in the Borough for the purpose of borough council elections or in any ward of the Parish of Ealing for the purpose of guardians' 20 elections.

(3) Where the Registration Officer of the Parliamentary Borough of Ealing considers (whether on account of an expression of choice by a person affected by a duplicate entry or otherwise) that any correction required for the purpose aforesaid should 25 be made in the electors lists of any registration unit comprising any part of the added area he shall forthwith notify the Registration Officer of the Parliamentary County of Middlesex and that officer shall make such correction accordingly.

(4) This article shall apply to the preparation of the register 30 in the year Nineteen hundred and twenty-eight and of later registers.

of electors.

49.-(1) In the preparation of the register in the year Provisions Nineteen hundred and twenty-eight so far as it relates to any as to register area affected by this Order it shall be competent to the Registra35 tion Officers to frame the register in separate parts for each area which will constitute a registration unit after this Order has come into operation instead of in separate parts for each area constituting a registration unit before the operation of this Order.

40 (2) If the register of local government electors for any electoral area affected by this Order is not so framed as to show

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(a) the Town Clerk in the case of an election for any voting area within the Borough; and

(b) the Registration Officer of the Parliamentary County 5 of Middlesex in the case of an election for any voting area outside the Borough;

shall make such alteration or re-arrangement of the register as may be necessary for the purposes of such election.

(3) Any additional expense incurred by a Registration 10 Officer which may be solely attributable to an alteration in the arrangement of a new register of electors or to a re-arrangement of an existing register of electors under the foregoing provisions of this article shall be defrayed by the Corporation.

(4) It shall be the duty of any officer designated under 15 article 3 of the Overseers Order 1927 by the Corporation or by the Rural Council for the performance of the duties of overseers in relation to the preparation of the register of electors to render such assistance as may be required by a Registration Officer for the purpose of any alteration or re-arrangement authorised by 20 paragraph (2) of this article.

(5) Where in the opinion of the Secretary of State the circumstances so require the Secretary of State may make such order as appears to him to be necessary or desirable to give effect to the provisions of this Order and may vary so far as 25 is requisite the provisions in force with regard to the lists and registers of electors.

50.-(1) For the purposes of the application of section 62 of of provisions the Act of 1888 to any adjustment under that section which as to adjust may become necessary in consequence of this Order that section 30 shall have effect

ments.

(a) As if in subsections (5) (6) and (7) thereof the expression council " included any authority affected by this Order

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or by anything done in pursuance of this Order;

(b) As if in the case of any such authority not otherwise 35
empowered to borrow under any Act or on any security
or in any manner mentioned in the said subsection (6)
that subsection empowered the authority to borrow
under any Act relating to and conferring on the
authority a power to borrow on the security of all or 40
any of the funds rates and revenues of the authority
and in the manner provided by the said Act but without
the consent of any other authority and subject to the
requirement that all money so borrowed shall be repaid
within such period as the Minister may sanction;

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