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5. Regulation 5 of the Local Government and Police and Crime Commissioner (Coronavirus) (Postponement of Elections and Referendums) (England and Wales) Regulations 2020(1) applies in relation to Somerset County Council as if paragraph (2) were omitted.
S.I. 2020/395. Regulation 5 postpones to the 6th May 2021 any by-elections which would be held to fill casual vacancies in the office of councillor in any county, district or London Borough Council in England. Regulation 5(2) provides that, where the by-election is in respect of a vacancy for a councillor who would have ordinarily retired in May 2021, no separate poll is to be held but the vacancy is to be filled at the ordinary election.
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