The Local Government and Police and Crime Commissioner (Coronavirus) (Postponement of Elections and Referendums) (England and Wales) Regulations 2020

Supplementary provision: terms of office of councillors

14.—(1) This regulation applies if—

(a) pursuant to an order or resolution made under any of the relevant provisions a poll for the ordinary election of councillors is to be held on the ordinary day of election in 2020; and

(b) pursuant to section 60 of the 2020 Act the poll is instead to be held on the ordinary day of election in 2021.

(2) Where this regulation applies—

(a) a councillor who would otherwise, pursuant to the relevant order or resolution, retire on the fourth day after the ordinary day of election in 2020 is instead to retire on the fourth day after the ordinary day of election in 2021; and

(b) a councillor elected on the ordinary day of election in 2021 is to retire on the day specified in the relevant order, or pursuant to the relevant order or resolution, and not on the fourth day after the ordinary day of election in 2024 (unless that is the day of retirement of the councillor pursuant to the order or resolution).

(3) In this regulation “the relevant provisions” means—

(a) section 17 of the 1992 Act;

(b) sections 7 (implementation of proposals by order), 10 (implementation of recommendations by order), 32 (resolution for whole-council elections) and 53 (power of council to alter years of ordinary elections of parish councillors) of the 2007 Act; and

(c) section 59 of the 2009 Act (implementation of review recommendations).