The District of Epping Forest (Electoral Changes) Order 2001

Parish elections

10.—(1) Elections of all parish councillors for the parishes of Roydon and Sheering shall be held simultaneously on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2003 and every fourth year after 2003.

(2) The ordinary election of parish councillors for the parish of Moreton in 2003 shall not take place; and any such parish councillor holding office immediately before 5th 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.

(3) Elections of all parish councillors for the parishes of Abbess, Beauchamp and Berners Roding, Fyfield, High Ongar, Moreton, Stapleford Abbotts, Stapleford Tawney, Stanford Rivers and Theydon Bois, Theydon Garnon, Theydon Mount and Willingale shall be held simultaneously on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2004 and every fourth year after 2004.

(4) The term of office of any parish councillor to whom paragraphs (1) and (3) of this article applies shall be four years; and those parish councillors 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.

(5) 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 occuring before 10th May 2004 in the office of a parish councillor for the parish of Moreton 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.