Commons Management Act 1989

A trust board must, at every third annual general meeting of commoners after the last general meeting of commoners at which a general election was held to elect members of the trust board, cause a general election to be held for the purpose of:

filling the vacancies that will arise in the membership of the board when the terms of office of the existing members end, and

electing the office bearers of the board from among the persons elected to fill those vacancies.

If a general election is not held as required by subsection (1), the Minister may:

convene a special general meeting of commoners for the purpose of holding such an election, and

appoint a person to preside at the meeting.

In subsection (1), the reference to the last general meeting of commoners at which a general election was held to elect members of a trust board includes:

in the case of a trust established under section 4 (1)—the general meeting of commoners convened to elect members of that board in accordance with section 5 (2), and

in the case of a trust established by section 4 (3)—the last general meeting of commoners held before the commencement of section 4 at which new trustees for the common were elected in accordance with section 6 of the former Act.