{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/borough-of-blackpool-electoral-changes-order-1997/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/borough-of-blackpool-electoral-changes-order-1997/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/783",
  "legislation_title": "The Borough of Blackpool (Electoral Changes) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/borough-of-blackpool-electoral-changes-order-1997",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Elections of the council of Blackpool",
  "text": "(1) Elections of all councillors for wards of the borough shall be held simultaneously on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 1997, 2000 and 2003 and every fourth year after 2003.\n(2) The term of office of any councillor so elected shall be, in the case of councillors elected in 1997 and 2000, three years and, in any other case, four years.\n(3) On the fourth day after any such elections—\n(a) the persons who were councillors immediately before those elections shall retire; and\n(b) the newly elected councillors shall come into office.\n(4) Paragraphs (2) to (5) of article 7 of the Lancashire (Boroughs of Blackburn and Blackpool) (Structural Change) Order 1996 shall be deleted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "For the ordinary day of election of councillors of local government areas, see section 37 of the Representation of the People Act 1983 (c. 2), amended by section 18(2) of the Representation of the People Act 1985 (c. 50)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/1868; article 7(2) to (5) makes provision similar to that made in article 3 of this Order."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/783/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:21:14.914429+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}