PART IVPowers and Duties of Local Authorities and Water Undertakers.

Miscellaneous.

43Appointment of officers as directors.

Where the statutory water undertakers are a company then notwithstanding anything in the [8 & 9 Vict. c. 16.] Companies Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, as applied by any enactment to that company—

a

any person employed as chief engineer, general manager or secretary of the company may be appointed a director of the company whether he is a shareholder in the company or not, but not so as to increase the number of the directors beyond the maximum number prescribed by any enactment relating to the company;

b

a person appointed a director of the company by virtue of the last foregoing paragraph shall not cease to be a director by reason that he is employed as aforesaid;

c

any such appointment may be made by the directors of the company as well as in manner provided by the said Act;

d

the provisions of the said Act requiring directors to retire by rotation shall have effect as if a person appointed by virtue of this section were not a director:

Provided that—

i

not more than one director of the company shall hold office at the same time by virtue of this section; and

ii

any person appointed by the directors by virtue of this section shall cease to be a director as from the date of the next ordinary general meeting of the company, unless the appointment is approved at that meeting by a majority of the votes of the proprietors of the company entitled to vote or voting, whether personally or by proxy, at the meeting.