The District of West Oxfordshire (Electoral Changes) Order 2001

Parish Elections

6.—(1) The term of office of every parish councillor elected on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2000 for the parish of Asthal shall be two years.

(2) The term of office of every parish councillor elected on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 1999 for the parishes of Ducklington and Shilton shall be three years.

(3) Elections of all parish councillors for the parishes of Ascott Under Wychwood, Asthal, Aston, Cote, Shifford and Chimney, Bampton, Bladon, Brize Norton, Burford, Cassington, Curbridge, Ducklington, Fulbrook, Lew, Sandford St Martin, Shilton, Shipton under Wychwood, Standlake, Steeple Barton, Swinbrook and Widford, shall be held simultaneously on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2002 and every fourth year after 2002.

(4) The ordinary elections of parish councillors for the parishes of Chadlington and Spelsbury in 2003 shall not take place; and any such parish councillor holding office immediately before 1st May 2003 who would, but for this paragraph, have retired on that date shall, unless he resigns his office or it otherwise becomes vacant, continue to hold office until the fourth day after the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2004.

(5) Elections of all parish councillors for the parishes listed in Schedule 4 shall be held simultaneously on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2004 and every fourth year after 2004.

(6) The term of office of parish councillors elected in accordance with any of paragraphs (3) and (5) above shall be four years; and they shall retire on the fourth day after the ordinary day of election of councillors in the year of retirement and the newly-elected councillors shall come into office on the day on which their predecessors retire.

(7) Rule 8 of the Local Elections (Parishes and Communities) Rules 1986(1) (filling of casual vacancies) shall have effect, in the case of a casual vacancy occurring before 10th May 2004 in the office of a parish councillor for the parishes of Chadlington and Spelsbury as if the references in paragraphs (1) and (4) of that rule to the day on which that councillor would regularly have retired were a reference to 10th May 2004.

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S.I. 1986/2215, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order.