{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/district-of-adur-electoral-changes-order-2002/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/district-of-adur-electoral-changes-order-2002/article-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2991",
  "legislation_title": "The District of Adur (Electoral Changes) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/district-of-adur-electoral-changes-order-2002",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Parish Elections",
  "text": "(1) The ordinary elections in of parish councillors for the parishes of Lancing and Sompting in 2003 shall not take place; and any such parish councillor holding office immediately before 5th May 2003 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 2004.\n(2) Elections of all parish councillors for the parishes of Lancing and Sompting shall be held simultaneously on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2004, 2008, and every fourth year after 2008.\n(3) 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 8th May 2004 in the office of a parish councillor for the parishes of Lancing and Sompting as if the references in paragraphs (1) and (4) of that rule to the day on which that councillor would regularly have retired were a reference to 8th May 2004.",
  "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": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2991/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:38:25.997772+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."
}