14.—(1) Notwithstanding section 16(3) of the 1972 Act (election of parish councillors)—
(a)elections shall not be held in 2011 for the return of councillors to the council of any parish in Northumberland; and
(b)the term of office of parish councillors elected in 2007 or at any subsequent by-election held before the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2013 shall end on the fourth day after the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2013(1).
(2) Elections of parish councillors for those parishes in which, but for paragraph (1), elections would have been held in 2011 shall be held on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2013
and every fourth year thereafter.
Under section 16(3) of the Local Government Act 1972, the term of office of parish councillors is four years.