{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cheshire-structural-changes-order-2008/article-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cheshire-structural-changes-order-2008/article-15.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/634",
  "legislation_title": "The Cheshire (Structural Changes) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cheshire-structural-changes-order-2008",
  "path": "article/15",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Cancellation of parish council elections, etc",
  "text": "(1) Notwithstanding section 16(3) of the 1972 Act (election of parish councillors)—\n(a) elections shall not be held in 2010 for the return of councillors to the council of any parish of the county of Cheshire East or Cheshire West and Chester; and\n(b) the term of office of councillors elected to a council of a parish of Cheshire in 2006 or 2008, or at any by-election before the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2011, shall end on the fourth day after the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2011.\n(2) Elections of parish councillors for all parish councils in the counties of Cheshire East and Cheshire West and Chester shall be held on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2011 and in every fourth year thereafter.\n(3) The term of office of parish councillors shall be four years and all parish councillors shall retire on the fourth day after the ordinary day of election of councillors in the year of retirement, and the newly-elected parish councillors shall come into office on the day on which their predecessors retire.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Under section 16(3) of the Local Government Act 1972, the term of office of parish councillors is four years."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/634/article/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:34:37.331160+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."
}