LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1993 - SECT 342 Validity of proceedings, &c.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1993 - SECT 342
Validity of proceedings, &c.
(1) Any act or proceeding of the Board, a council, council committee, controlling authority or any person acting under any direction of the Board, a council, council committee or controlling authority is not invalid by reason only that at the time when the act or proceeding was done, taken or commenced there was a vacancy in the office of a councillor.(2) An act or proceeding of the Board, a council, council committee, controlling authority or a person acting under the direction of the Board, a council, council committee or controlling authority is valid even if (a) the appointment of a member of the Board, council, council committee or controlling authority was defective; or(b) a person appointed as a member of the Board, council or council committee was disqualified from acting as, or incapable of being, such a member.