The Borough of Basingstoke and Deane (Electoral Changes) Order 2008

Parish Elections

8.—(1) The elections of all parish councillors for the parish of Pamber shall be held simultaneously on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2011(1).

(2) The term of office of every parish councillor elected on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2006 for the parish of Pamber shall be five years.

(3) The ordinary election of parish councillors for the parish of Pamber in 2010 elections shall not take place; and any such parish councillor holding office immediately before 10 May 2010 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 2011.

(4) Where any provision of an Order made before the making of this Order requires an election of parish councillors for a parish mentioned in paragraph (1) to be held on a date other than that for which paragraph provides, it shall cease to have effect to that extent.

(5) Rule 8 of the Local Elections (Parishes and Communities) Rules 1986(2) (filling of casual vacancies) shall have effect, in the case of a casual vacancy occurring before May 2011 in the office of a parish councillor for the parishes of Pamber 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 May 2011.

(1)

Article 7 provides for parish elections in the parish of Pamber in 2011. Section 16(3) of the Local Government Act 1972 (c.70) provides for parish elections to take place every four years.

(2)

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