Section 16:
Vacancies in special cases.
(1) If for any cause at an election no member is elected, or if the
elected member is unwelling to serve on the Board, fresh election shall be held to fill up such vacancy.
(2) If a person is elected to more than one seat in a Board, then, unless he resigns all but one of the
seats within fourteen days from the date on which he is declared elected, or where the dates on which he
is declared elected are different in respect of different seats, from the last of such dates, all the seats shall
become vacant.
(3) Vacancies arising in any of the following cases shall be filled by nomination by the Central
Government after consultation with the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, the Command, namely:--
(a) where at a casual election no member is elected;
(b) where at an election held when a Board is constituted for the first time no member or an
insufficient number of members is elected or an elected member is unwilling to serve on the Board.
(4) For the purposes of sub-section (2) of section 15, a member nominated in pursuance of
sub-section (3) of this section shall where there has been a division of the cantonment into wards, be
deemed to have been elected by such ward as the Central Government may at the time of making the
nomination or at any time thereafter declare.
(5) The term of office of a member nominated under this section shall expire at the time at which it
would have expired if he had been elected at the casual election.