{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/borough-of-congleton-electoral-changes-order-1998/article-9",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/2843",
  "legislation_title": "The Borough of Congleton (Electoral Changes) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/borough-of-congleton-electoral-changes-order-1998",
  "path": "article/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Parish elections",
  "text": "(1) Elections of parish councillors for the parishes of Bradwall, Brereton and Moston shall be held simultaneously on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 1999.\n(2) Elections of parish councillors for the parishes of Betchton, Church Lawton, Hassall and Holmes Chapel shall be held simultaneously on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2000 and every fourth year after 2000.\n(3) The term of office of any parish councillor elected on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 1999 for the parishes of Arclid, Bradwall, Brereton, Cranage, Goostrey, Hulme Walfield, Moston, Newbold Astbury cum Moreton, Smallwood, Somerford, Somerford Booths, Swettenham and Twemlow shall be three years and elections shall be held simultaneously on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2002 and every fourth year after 2002.\n(4) Except as otherwise provided in the foregoing paragraphs of this article, the term of office of parish councillors shall be four years and all parish councillors shall retire on the fourth day after the ordinary day of election of councillors in the year of retirement and the newly elected parish councillors shall come into office on the day on which their predecessors retire.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2008/634",
      "affecting_title": "The Cheshire (Structural Changes) Order 2008"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2843/article/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:15:28.408353+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."
}