{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/borough-of-welwyn-hatfield-electoral-changes-order-2008/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/borough-of-welwyn-hatfield-electoral-changes-order-2008/article-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/424",
  "legislation_title": "The Borough of Welwyn Hatfield (Electoral Changes) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/borough-of-welwyn-hatfield-electoral-changes-order-2008",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Parish elections",
  "text": "(1) Elections of all parish councillors for the parishes of Hatfield and Welwyn shall be held simultaneously on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2008 and 2011.\n(2) The term of office of every parish councillor for these parishes elected on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2007 shall be one year.\n(3) Where any provision of an Order made before the making of this Order requires an election of parish councillors for a parish mentioned in paragraph (1) to be held on a date other than that for which that paragraph provides, it shall cease to have effect to that extent.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Article 7 provides for parish elections in the parishes of Hatfield and Welwyn in 2008 and 2011. Section 16(3) of the Local Government Act 1972 (c.70) provides for parish elections to take place every four years."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/424/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:36:20.397129+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."
}