Councillors
6.—(1) Any persons in office immediately before the reorganisation date as councillors for an altered area shall continue as councillors for the altered area until the date on which they would ordinarily have retired had the order not been made.
(2) Where any casual vacancy for the office of councillor arises in an altered area on or before the reorganisation date, that vacancy shall be treated as a vacancy for a councillor of the altered area.
(3) Notwithstanding section 7 of the 1972 Act, any persons in office as councillors of an abolished authority immediately before the reorganisation date shall retire on that date.