Regulation 3 Term of office of members

(1)

Subject to the following provisions of this regulation and to regulations 9 and 10 (disqualification for, and termination of, membership), the term of office of any member shall be—

(a)

in the case of an existing Council, four years;

(b)

in the case of a Council established under section 20A(2)(b)^f1 of the Act, a period not exceeding four years as the appointing body shall specify on appointment;

(c)

in the case of appointment as a first member to a Council established under section 20A(2)(b) of the Act, the term of office of a member who, immediately prior to appointment as a first member to a new Council was a member of an existing Council or of a Council abolished or of a Council in respect of which the district for which it was established was altered under section 20A(2)(b) of the Act, shall be the unexpired period of that member’s term of office as a member of a Council referred to in this paragraph.

(2)

Where a new Council is to be established for the district or part of a district of an existing Council, the Assembly may determine that the term of office of any member of the existing Council shall cease immediately before the establishment of the new Council and if a member whose term of office is terminated pursuant to this paragraph is appointed as a first member of the new Council, the term of office of that member shall be the unexpired period of that member’s term of office as a member of the existing Council.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Section 20A was inserted by section 1 of the 2003 Act.