135Consequences of local election declared void
(1)Where on a petition questioning an election under the local government Act—
(a)the election of any person has been declared void, and
(b)no other person has been declared elected in his place,
a new election shall be held to fill the vacancy in the same manner as on a casual vacancy.
(2)For the purposes of that election any duties to be performed by any officer shall, if he has been declared not elected, be performed by a deputy or other person who might have acted for him if he had been incapacitated by illness.
(3)This section does not apply to Scotland