Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947

4 Term of office of county councillors.

(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, the term of office of a county councillor shall be three years, and in every third year on the second Tuesday of November the whole number of councillors shall retire from office and their places shall be filled by election,

(2) Notwithstancling anything on this Act—

(a) the county councillors representing the landward area at the commencement of this Act shall retire from office on the second Tuesday of November in the year nineteen hundred and forty-eight, notwithstanding that the last election before the commencement of this Act was held on the first Tuesday of December in the year nineteen hundred and forty-five;

(b) a county councillor representing a burgh shall cease to be a county councillor on ceasing to be a town councillor of the burgh, so however that if he ceases to be a town councillor by reason of retirement in ordinary course he shall continue to hold office as a county councillor until the town council have elected a successor in his place;

(c) on any electoral division of a county being wholly included within the boundaries of a burgh, the county councillor representing the electoral division shall from the date on which the inclusion takes effect cease to hold office, and, except where the Secretary of State otherwise directs, the number of councillors for the county shall be reduced accordingly;

(d) where a part only of an electoral division of a county is so included, the county councillor for that electoral division shall continue to hold office until the Secretary of State otherwise directs.