{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cardiff-st-mellons-community-order-1996/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cardiff-st-mellons-community-order-1996/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/494",
  "legislation_title": "The Cardiff (St. Mellons Community) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cardiff-st-mellons-community-order-1996",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Councillors",
  "text": "(1) Any casual vacancy which exists on 15th March 1996 or occurs before the appointed day in the office of community councillor for the Llanedeyrn ward of the community of St. Mellons shall (except where notice of the election has at 15th March 1996 already been given) not be filled. Any person in office at the appointed day in such office shall retire from office on that day.\n(2) Any person in office on the appointed day as a community councillor for the Old St. Mellons ward of the community formerly known as St. Mellons shall represent the community of Old St. Mellons and shall retire on the fourth day after the ordinary day of election of community councillors in 1999.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/494/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:51:03.607889+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."
}