Councillors
11.—(1) Any person in office immediately before the order date as a parish councillor for an area which is altered by the order (“an altered area”) shall, unless he resigns his office or it otherwise becomes vacant, continue as parish councillor for the area as so altered until the date on which he would ordinarily have retired had the order not been made.
(2) Where any casual vacancy for the office of parish councillor arises in an altered area on or before the order date, that vacancy shall be treated as a vacancy for a parish councillor of the altered area.
(3) Notwithstanding subsection (3) of section 16 (parish councillors) of the 1972 Act, any persons in office as parish councillors of an abolished authority immediately before the order date shall retire on that date.