{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cattewater-harbour-revision-constitution-order-2005/article-7",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2932",
  "legislation_title": "The Cattewater Harbour Revision (Constitution) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cattewater-harbour-revision-constitution-order-2005",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Transitional provisions",
  "text": "(1) Each commissioner who holds office at the date of the coming into force of this Order shall continue in office and, in the case of the chairman and deputy chairman, in that capacity until the re-appointment of commissioners pursuant to paragraph (3) below unless, prior to such re-appointment, that commissioner dies, resigns or becomes disqualified from office.\n(2) Each remaining commissioner within the meaning of paragraph (7) shall at the date of coming into force of this Order be re-appointed to office and, in the case of the chairman and deputy chairman, to office in that capacity and the appointment shall last until any re-appointment under paragraph (3).\n(3) As soon as practicable after the coming into force of this Order, the Commissioners shall at a meeting of the Commissioners and upon the basis of the criteria for appointments specified in article 5(2) above re-appoint from amongst their number—\n(a) three commissioners to serve for a further term of one year from the new constitution date;\n(b) three commissioners to serve for a further term of two years from the new constitution date; and\n(c) three commissioners, including the commissioner appointed by the Secretary of State for Defence, to serve for a further term of three years from the new constitution date.\n(4) Article 8 below shall apply to a casual vacancy arising amongst any of the Commissioners in office at the coming into force of this Order (including the chairman and deputy chairman) as it applies to the successor to that commissioner to be appointed pursuant to this Order.\n(5) Article 9 below shall apply to each of the Commissioners in office at the coming into force of this Order as if they had been appointed on the day that this Order comes into force.\n(6) The designated officer shall first take up office as a commissioner on the coming into force of this Order.\n(7) A remaining commissioner under paragraph (2) above is a commissioner who was appointed or elected as such before this Order came into force and who continues to act as such at the date of the coming into force of this Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2932/article/7",
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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."
}