{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/city-of-winchester-electoral-changes-order-2001/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/city-of-winchester-electoral-changes-order-2001/article-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/1028",
  "legislation_title": "The City of Winchester (Electoral Changes) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/city-of-winchester-electoral-changes-order-2001",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Parish Elections",
  "text": "(1) Elections of all parish councillors for the parishes referred to in Schedule 5 shall be held simultaneously on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2002 and every fourth year after 2002.\n(2) The ordinary election of parish councillors in 2002 for the parish of Northington shall not take place; and any parish councillor holding office immediately before 6th May 2002 who would, but for this paragraph, have retired on that date shall, unless he resigns his office or it otherwise becomes vacant, continue to hold office until the fourth day after the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2003.\n(3) Elections of all parish councillors for the parish of Northington shall be held simultaneously on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2003 and every fourth year after 2003.\n(4) Elections of all parish councillors for the parishes of Badger Farm, Boarhunt, Compton and Shawford, Shedfield, and Southwick and Widley shall be held simultaneously on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2004 and every fourth year after 2004.\n(5) The term of office of any parish councillor to whom any of paragraphs (1), (3) or (4) apply shall be four years; and the 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 councillors shall come into office on the day on which their predecessors retire.\n(6) Rule 8 of the Local Elections (Parishes and Communities) Rules 1986 (filling of casual vacancies) shall have effect, in the case of a casual vacancy occurring before 5th May 2003 in the office of a parish councillor for the parish of Northington, as if the reference in paragraphs (1) and (4) of that rule to the day on which that councillor would regularly have retired were a reference to 5th May 2003.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/2215, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1028/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:54:23.744748+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."
}