8Elections and councillors
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Merger regulations may include provision—
(a)cancelling an ordinary election of councillors to the merging authorities and extending the existing terms of office of councillors;
(b)disapplying for a specified period provisions requiring the filling of casual vacancies in the office of councillor for any of the merging authorities;
(c)setting the date of the first ordinary election of councillors to the principal local authority for the new principal area and the terms of office of councillors returned at that election;
(d)postponing an ordinary election of councillors to community councils in the new principal area and the extension of the existing terms of office of councillors.