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The Northamptonshire (Structural Changes) Order 2020

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Cancellation of parish council elections, etc

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21.  Notwithstanding section 16(3) of the 1972 Act (election of parish councillors)—

(a)ordinary elections are not to be held in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2026 or in 2027 for the return of councillors to the council of any parish within the non-metropolitan district of North Northamptonshire and the non-metropolitan district of West Northamptonshire;

(b)the term of office of parish councillors elected at the ordinary elections in 2020 or in any earlier year or at any subsequent by-election held before the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2025 ends on the fourth day after the ordinary day of elections in 2025(1);

(c)ordinary elections of parish councillors for those parishes in which, but for paragraph (a), elections would have been held in 2021, 2022 or 2023 are to be held on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2025 and every fourth year thereafter;

(d)the term of office of parish councillors elected at the ordinary elections in 2025 or at any subsequent by-election held before the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2029 ends on the fourth day after the ordinary day of elections in 2029; and

(e)ordinary elections of parish councillors for those parishes in which, but for paragraph (a), elections would have been held in 2026 or 2027 are to be held on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2029 and every fourth year thereafter.

(1)

Under section 16(3) of the Local Government Act 1972, the term of office of parish councillors is four years and elections of councillors for parish councillors within Northamptonshire were due to be held on the ordinary day of elections in 2019. The Northamptonshire (Changes to Years of Elections) Order 2018 S.I. 2018/1324 changed the year of elections of parish councils within Northamptonshire from 2019 to 2020.

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