3452

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

No. 91

11. Such election shall be held in the first week of the month of May
    in the year 1929 and every alternate year thereafter, or as soon thereafter
    as may be convenient on a date to be fixed by the Board.

12. Forthwith after the completion of every such election the Returning
    Officer shall notify to the Board the name of every person elected.

13. If at any election the number of candidates duly nominated is less
    than the number of vacancies to be filled, the Board shall at its next
    meeting select duly qualified persons to complete the number required.

Failure to appoint or elect.

14. If any appointment of a member is not made within the time
    hereinbefore prescribed the Secretary shall give notice thereof to the
    Minister, and the vacancy for which no person has been appointed may
    be filled by appointment by the Minister, or the Minister may direct that
    the body charged with the duty of appointing a member may proceed to
    make such appointment.

15. Where anything connected with the appointment or election of
    members is omitted to be done or cannot be done at or by the time hereby
    prescribed, or is done after such time, or is otherwise irregularly done in
    matter of form, the Minister may at any time before or after the time at
    or by which such thing is required to be done extend the time for doing
    such thing to such further time as he thinks fit, or may validate anything
    so done after the time required or so irregularly done in matter of form
    as he thinks fit.

Qualification of Members.

16. It shall not be necessary that the member appointed by an
    Education Board or Borough Council shall himself be a member of such
    body nor that a member elected by parents shall himself be the parent
    of a pupil.

17. Retiring members shall be eligible for membership of the Board
    on appointment or election by either the same or another appointing or
    electing body.

18. No person shall be eligible to become or remain a member of the
    Board if he is an alien or a mentally defective person, or a bankrupt who
    has not obtained his discharge or whose discharge is for the time being
    suspended or is subject to conditions not yet fulfilled, or if he has been
    convicted of any offence punishable by death or imprisonment with hard
    labour for three years or upwards unless he has received a free pardon or
    has served his sentence or otherwise suffered the penalty imposed on him,
    or if he receives any salary from the Board or holds any office or employment under the Board to which any fees, salary, or emoluments are attached,
    or if he is interested or concerned (except as a member of an incorporated
    company not being the manager thereof) in any contract under which
    any money is to be paid by or to the Board.

Tenure of Office.

19. Except in the case of a casual vacancy, every member shall hold
    office until the 31st day of May in the year 1929, and every member
    appointed or elected in the year 1929 or later shall hold office until the
    31st day of May in the second year after the year of his election or
    appointment, and if on such 31st day of May the appointment or election
    of his successor has not been notified to the Board, he shall continue to hold
    office until the date on which such appointment or election is so notified.

20. Every person appointed or elected to fill a casual vacancy shall hold
    office for the residue of the term of office of the member whom he replaces.

21. Every person appointed or elected to membership otherwise than
    upon a casual vacancy shall assume office on the 1st day of June in the
    year of his appointment or election, or so soon thereafter as his appointment
    or election has been notified to the Board.

22. Every person appointed or elected to fill a casual vacancy shall
    assume office on the date on which his appointment or election is notified
    to the Board.

23. If any member dies or resigns his office by writing under his hand
    addressed to the Board or the Chairman or the Secretary thereof, or is
    absent without leave from the meetings of the Board for three consecutive
    months, or while holding office becomes ineligible to remain a member under
    clause 18 hereof, his office shall be thereby vacated and a casual vacancy
    shall be deemed to exist.