{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/denbighshire-and-wrexham-areas-order-1996/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/denbighshire-and-wrexham-areas-order-1996/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2914",
  "legislation_title": "The Denbighshire and Wrexham (Areas) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/denbighshire-and-wrexham-areas-order-1996",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "County and County Borough Councillors",
  "text": "(1) Regulation 8 of the Regulations (councillors) shall, in relation to the office of councillor for the county of Denbighshire or for the county borough of Wrexham, have effect subject to the following provisions of this article.\n(2) Any casual vacancy which exists at, or otherwise occurs after, 1st January 1997 in the office of county councillor for—\n(a) the existing Llangollen electoral division of the county borough of Denbighshire; or\n(b) the existing Llangollen Rural electoral division of that county,\nshall (except where notice of the election has already been given before 1st January 1997) not be filled.\n(3) Any person in office immediately before 1st April 1997 as county councillor for the existing Llangollen or Llangollen Rural electoral division shall on and after 1st April 1997 represent as the case may be—\n(a) the altered Llangollen electoral division as a county councillor; or\n(b) the new Llangollen Rural electoral division in the county borough of Wrexham as a county borough councillor,\nbut in either case shall (unless he previously resigns his office or it otherwise becomes vacant) retire from that office on 6th July 1997.\n(4) Any casual vacancy which occurs before 6th July 1997 in either of the offices of councillor provided for in paragraph (3) shall not be filled.\n(5) In relation to a person, who by virtue of paragraph (3)(b) above, holds office on and after 1st April 1997 as county borough councillor for the new Llangollen Rural election division, regulation 8(3) of the Regulations shall apply to such a person as if he were remaining in such office during the period provided for by paragraph (3) above.\n(6) First elections for two county councillors for the altered Llangollen electoral division and for one county borough councillor for the new Llangollen Rural electoral division shall be held on such day after 1st April 1997 and prior to 3rd July 1997 as the relevant returning officer shall appoint and the rules for the time being applying to elections to principal areas shall apply to such elections with any necessary modifications.\n(7) A person elected in accordance with paragraph (6) above shall come into office on 6th July 1997 and shall retire (unless he previously resigns his office or it otherwise becomes vacant) on the fourth day after the ordinary day of election for councillors in 1999.\n(8) Except in the case of an election to which paragraph (2) above applies, in relation to the qualification of any person to be elected and to be a member of the Denbighshire county council or the Wrexham county borough council, this Order shall be deemed, for the purposes of section 79 of the Local Government Act 1972 to have been in operation during the whole of the twelve months preceding the relevant day within the meaning of that section.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See the Local Elections (Principal Areas) Rules 1986 (S.I. 1986/2214) amended by S.I. 1987/261, S.I. 1990/158, S.I. 1990/932 and S.I. 1995/1948."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "For the meaning of “ordinary day of election of councillors”, see section 37 of the Representation of the People Act 1983 (c. 2) which was amended by section 18(2) of the Representation of the People Act 1985 (c. 50)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Relevant amendments to section 79 were made by S.I. 1995/1948."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2914/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:31:54.793082+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."
}