Article 7

Except as otherwise provided below, no alteration shall be made to the ordinary year of election of councillors for any parish or ward of a parish situated in the Borough of Basingstoke and Deane.

Any parish councillor elected at the ordinary elections in 1991 for the Ashmansworth, East Woodhay, Highclere and Mary St. Bourne parishes shall retire in 1994.

Any parish councillor elected at the ordinary elections in 1992 for the Cliddesden, Ellisfield, Herriard and Upton Grey parishes shall retire in 1995.

Any parish councillors to whom this article applies shall retire on the fourth day after the ordinary day of election of councillors in the year of retirement, and the newly elected councillors shall come into office on the day on which their predecessors retire.