{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bridgend-and-the-vale-of-glamorgan-areas-order-1996/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bridgend-and-the-vale-of-glamorgan-areas-order-1996/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2915",
  "legislation_title": "The Bridgend and The Vale of Glamorgan (Areas) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bridgend-and-the-vale-of-glamorgan-areas-order-1996",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Community Councils",
  "text": "(1) Regulation 8 of the Regulations shall, in relation to the office of councillor for any community the area of which is altered by this Order, have effect subject to the following provisions of this article.\n(2) The number of councillors for the Oldcastle ward of the community of Bridgend shall be six.\n(3) The additional councillor for the Oldcastle ward of the community of Bridgend as provided for in paragraph (2) above shall be elected on such day after 1st April 1997 and prior to 3rd July 1997 as the returning officer shall appoint and the rules for the time being applying to the election of community councillors shall apply to such election with any necessary modifications.\n(4) The person elected in accordance with paragraph (3) above shall come into office on 6th July 1997 and shall retire (unless he previously resigns his office or it otherwise becomes vacant) on the fourth day after the ordinary day of election of councillors in 1999.\n(5) In relation to the community of Ewenny—\n(a) any casual vacancy in the office of councillor for that community which exists at 1st April 1997 or occurs before the ordinary day of election of councillors in 1999 shall (except where notice of the election has already been given before 1st April 1997) be filled only to maintain the number of councillors for that community at seven; and\n(b) subject to paragraph (6), as from the ordinary day of election of councillors in 1999 the number of councillors for the community of Ewenny shall be seven.\n(6) Any person in office as a councillor for the community of Ewenny immediately before the date of the ordinary election of councillors in 1999 shall not, by reason only of the provisions of paragraph (5)(b) above, be required to retire from that office before the fourth day after the ordinary day of election of councillors in 1999.\n(7) In relation to the qualification of any person to be elected and to be a member of the council of any community the area of which is altered by this Order, this Order shall be deemed, for the purposes of section 79 of the Local Government Act 1972, to have been in operation during the whole of the twelve months preceding the relevant day within the meaning of that section.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See the Local Elections (Parishes and Communities) Rules 1986 (S.I. 1986/2215) amended by S.I. 1987/260, S.I. 1990/157; S.I. 1990/2477 and S.I. 1995/1948."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2915/article/5",
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  },
  "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."
}