Article 1 Title and coming into force

(1)

The title of this Order is the County of Pembrokeshire (Communities) Order 2026.

(2)

For any purpose set out in regulation 4(1) of the 1976 Regulations, this Order comes into force on 6 May 2026.

(3)

For all other purposes, this Order comes into force at 23:59 hours on the day before the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2027^f1.

Annotations

f1: The Local Authorities (Change to the Years of Ordinary Elections) (Wales) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/1269 (W. 220)) amended section 26(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70) to provide that the year in which the ordinary elections of councillors of local authorities must take place was 2022 instead of 2021. Section 26(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 was further amended by section 14(1) of the Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 (asc 1) to provide that elections must take place every fifth year after 2022.