PART 2ESTABLISHMENT OF SINGLE TIER LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN BEDFORD AND CENTRAL BEDFORDSHIRE

County of Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire County Council and councillors of that CouncilI15

1

On 1st April 2009—

a

the county of Bedfordshire shall be abolished as a local government area; and

b

the County Council shall be wound up and dissolved.

2

The term of office of persons serving as councillors of the County Council immediately before 1st April 2009 shall end on that date.

3

Nothing in section 89 of the 1972 Act (filling of casual vacancies in case of councillors) shall authorise the holding of an election to fill a casual vacancy in the office of councillor of the County Council where that vacancy arises after 30th September 2008 and before 1st April 2009.