{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/city-of-stoke-on-trent-scheme-of-elections-order-2009/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2009/2734",
  "legislation_title": "The City of Stoke-on-Trent (Scheme of Elections) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/city-of-stoke-on-trent-scheme-of-elections-order-2009",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Elections of the Council of the City of Stoke-on-Trent",
  "text": "(1) Elections of all councillors for all the wards of the City of Stoke-on-Trent shall be held simultaneously on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2011 and in every fourth year after 2011.\n(2) The councillors holding office immediately before the fourth day after the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2011 shall retire on that date and the newly elected councillors shall come into office on that date.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "For the ordinary day of election of councillors of local government areas, see section 37 of the Representation of the People Act 1983 (c.2), amended by section 18(2) of the Representation of the People Act 1985 (c.50)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/2734/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:04:47.430738+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."
}