{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/city-of-gloucester-electoral-changes-order-1997/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/city-of-gloucester-electoral-changes-order-1997/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/157",
  "legislation_title": "The City of Gloucester (Electoral Changes) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/city-of-gloucester-electoral-changes-order-1997",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Electoral changes: general",
  "text": "(1) In the case of an equality of votes between any persons elected which makes it uncertain which of them is to retire in any such year, the person to retire in that year shall be determined by lot.\n(2) If an election of councillors is uncontested the councillor of the ward in question who is to retire in that year shall be determined by lot.\n(3) Where under this article any question is to be determined by lot, the lot shall be drawn at the next practicable meeting of the council after the question has arisen, and the drawing shall be conducted under the direction of the person presiding at the meeting.\n(4) Except as otherwise provided in this Order, the term of office of councillors shall be four years, and all councillors shall retire on the fourth day after the ordinary election of councillors for the city in the year of retirement, and the newly elected councillors shall come into office on the day on which their predecessors retire.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/157/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:27:11.140597+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."
}