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Canterbury Roads Amendment Ordinance 1873

12. The Canterbury Roads Amendment Ordinance 1873.

[16^th June 1873.]

Whereas it is expedient to amend “The Canterbury Roads Ordinance 1872” Be it therefore enacted by the Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury by and with the consent of the Provincial Council as follows:

1. Vacancies caused by members of Board being ousted from office by judgment of R.M. Court, how to be filled.

Whenever any person declared elected to be member of the Board of any district has been adjudged by any Resident Magistrates Court under “The Highway Boards Empowering Act 1871” to be ousted of his office as such member the Chairman of the Board or if there be no Chairman the Superintendent shall forthwith by public notice call a meeting of the ratepayers of the district or subdivision as the case may be to elect a member to fill the vacancy in the Board caused by such ouster and the member so elected shall continue in office so

long only as the member would have continued in whose place he shall have been so elected Every such election shall be conducted in the manner provided by the said Ordinance.

2. Title.

This Ordinance shall be read and construed as part of the “Canterbury Roads Ordinance 1872” and be intituled “The Canterbury Roads Amendment Ordinanc 1873.”