Extent Information
E1Part II (ss. 20-38) extends to Wales only: see s. 38
(1)Community councillors shall be elected by the local government electors for the community in accordance with this Act and Part I of the [F1Representation of the People Act 1983].
(2)Subject to any provision included in an order by virtue of section 67 below, the ordinary elections of community councillors shall take place in 1974, 1979 and every fourth year thereafter, their term of office shall be five years in the case of those elected at the ordinary elections in 1974 and four years in the case of those elected at ordinary elections held thereafter, and the whole number of community councillors shall retire together in every ordinary year of election of such councillors on the fourth day after the ordinary day of election of such councillors, and in and after 1979 the newly elected councillors shall come into office on the day on which their predecessors retire.
(3)Where a community is not divided into community wards there shall be one election of community councillors for the whole community.
(4)Where a community is divided into community wards there shall be a separate election of community councillors for each ward.
Textual Amendments
F1Words substituted by Representation of the People Act 1983 (c. 2, SIF 42), s. 206, Sch. 8 para. 12