The Cowes Harbour Revision Order 1988

Election of traders' and other members and tenure of office

5.—(1) Section 7 of the 1897 Act (election and rotation of traders' and other members) shall be amended as follows.

(2) For subsections (1) to (3) there shall be substituted the following subsections:—

“(1) Traders' members shall be elected by the electors of traders' members on the 1st December 1988 and every third year thereafter in the manner by this Act provided and shall hold office until the 7th December three years later.

(2) As soon as practicable after the commencement of the Cowes Harbour Revision Order 1988 (“the commencement date”) the Chief Executive of the Commissioners shall make out and deliver to the Commissioners a list of the electors of traders' members qualified on the 31st October 1988 in accordance with the provisions of that Order, and that list shall have effect for the first election of traders' members after the commencement date and shall for all purposes of this Act be substituted for the list of electors in force under this Act immediately before the commencement date.

(3) The Commissioners to be appointed as provided in section 5(1)(e) and (f) of this Act shall be appointed prior to the 1st November in the year 1988 and in every third year thereafter.”.

(3) In subsection (4) (as substituted by article 4 of the Harbour Authorities (Constitition) Order 1985(1)) for the words from “1985” to the end there shall be substituted the words “1988 and in every third year thereafter”.

(4) Subsection (5) shall cease to have effect.

(5) In subsection (6) for the words “Yacht Racing Association” there shall be substituted the words “Royal Yachting Association” and for the words from “first day of November” to the end there shall be substituted the words “1st November in the year 1988 and in every third year thereafter”.

(6) In subsection (7) the words from “fail to make” to “elect Commissioners”, in the first place where they occur, and the word “subsequent” shall cease to have effect.

(7) In subsection (9) for the words “following year” there shall be substituted the words “third year thereafter”.

(8) Nothing in this article shall preclude a Commissioner appointed or elected under section 6 or 7 of the 1897 Act before the commencement of this Order from continuing in office until the 7th December 1988.

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S.I. 1985/1504.