8(1)Until the completion of the election of a chairman at the first meeting of a new principal council, persons designated by the committee established for the area of the council under section 264 above shall exercise any functions falling to be exercised by the chairman and vice-chairman of the council, but any person so designated shall not vote in the first instance at the election of the chairman unless he is a councillor for the new area.
(2)At the first meeting of a new principal council the clerk or deputy clerk of an existing authority so designated shall exercise any functions falling to be exercised by the proper officer of the new council in relation to the meeting.
(3)The standing orders for the regulation of the proceedings and business of an existing authority so designated shall apply at the first meeting of a new principal council.