Schedule 2 ORDER OF RETIREMENT OF COUNCILLORS
Original text. Later amendments are not shown.
| Name of ward | Number of councillors to retire in 1999 | Number of councillors to retire in 2000 | Number of councillors to retire in 2001 |
| Appleton | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Bewsey and Whitecross | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Birchwood East | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Birchwood West | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Burtonwood and Winwick | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Culcheth, Glazebury and Croft | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Fairfield and Howley | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Grappenhall and Thelwall | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Great Sankey North | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Great Sankey South | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Hatton, Stretton and Walton | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Hulme | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Latchford | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Lymm | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Orford | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Penketh and Cuerdley | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Poplars | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Poulton North | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Poulton South | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Rixton and Woolston | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Stockton Heath | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Westbrook | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Westy | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Whittle Hall | 1 | 1 | 0 |