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(1)The provost of a burgh shall be elected by the town council of the burgh from among the town councillors.
Any reference in this Act to a provost in the case of a burgh in which the provost is entitled to the designation of lord provost shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be construed as a reference to the lord provost.
(2)Subject to the provisions of this Act relating to filling casual vacancies in the office of provost, the term of office of the provost shall be from the day of his election to that office as hereinafter provided until the first Tuesday of November in the third year after the day of his election, and during that period, notwithstanding anything in this Act, he shall not, so long as he continues to hold the office of provost, be due to retire as a town councillor.
(3)The lord provost of a county of a city shall, by virtue of his office unless disqualified by any Act, be a justice of the peace for the county of the city, and the provost of any other burgh shall, by virtue of his office unless disqualified by any Act, be a justice of the peace for the county in which the burgh-is situated, but .before acting as such justice he shall take the oaths required by law to be taken by a justice of the peace for the county of the city or for the county, as the case may be, unless he is, at the date on which he is elected to act as lord provost or provost, a justice of the peace for the county of the city or for the county, as the case may be, and has taken such oaths or unless the provisions of the Ex-officio Justices of the Peace (Scotland) Act, 1898, apply in his case.
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