law: Cantonments Act, I924 
  17.Vacancies in special cases:- 
  (1) If from any cause at an ordinary election
  
  no member is elected, or if the elected member is unwilling to serve on the
  
  Board, the outgoing member shall, if qualified and willing to serve, be deemed
  
  to have been re-elected:
  {Ins.by Act 15 of 1942, s.2.} [Provided that
  
  where there are more outgoing members qualified and willing to serve than there
  
  are vacancies to be filled under this sub-section, the outgoing members so
  
  deemed to have been re-elected shall, failing agreement amongst such members,
  
  be determined by lot under the supervision of the President of the Board and in
  
  such manner as he may decide.]
  {Subs., ibid., for the former sub-section (2).}[(2) Vacancies arising in any of
  
  the following cases shall be filled by nomination by the Central Government
  
  after consultation with the Officer Commanding-in-Chief, the Command, namely :-
  (a) where at a casual election no member is elected;
  (b) where at an ordinary election no member or
  
  an insufficient number of members is elected, or an elected member is unwilling
  
  to serve on the Board and the outgoing member is not qualified or is not
  
  willing to serve or is dead or cannot be found within a reasonable time;
  (c) 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.]
  {Sub-section (3) has inserted and the original
  
  sub-section (3) re-numbered (4) by s.2, Act 15 of 1942} [(3) For the purposes
  
  of sub-section (2) of section 16, a member nominated in pursuance of
  
  sub-section (2) of this section shall, where there has been a division of the
  
  cantonment into wards or of the inhabitants thereof into classes, be deemed to
  
  have been elected by such ward or class, as the case may be, as the Central
  
  Government may at the time of making the nomination or at any time thereafter
  
  declare.]
  {Sub-section (3) has inserted and the original
  
  sub-section (3) re-numbered (4) by s.2, Act 15 of 1942.} [(4)] The term of
  
  office of a member nominated or deemed to have been re-elected under this
  
  section shall expire at the time at which it would have expired if he had been
  
  elected at the ordinary or casual election, as the case may be.