{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/district-of-broadland-whole-council-elections-order-2006/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/district-of-broadland-whole-council-elections-order-2006/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/245",
  "legislation_title": "The District of Broadland (Whole Council Elections) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/district-of-broadland-whole-council-elections-order-2006",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Elections of the Council of the District of Broadland",
  "text": "(1) Elections of all councillors for all the wards of the District of Broadland (“the District”) shall be held simultaneously on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2007 and every fourth year after 2007.\n(2) The councillors holding office for any ward of the District immediately before the fourth day after the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2007 shall retire on that date and the newly elected councillors for those wards shall come into office on that date.\n(3) The term of office of all councillors elected in accordance with paragraph (1) shall be four years; and they shall retire on the fourth day after the ordinary day of election of councillors and the newly elected councillors shall come into office on the day on which their predecessors retire.\n(4) The ordinary election of councillors in 2006 for the wards of the District specified in paragraph (5) shall not take place; and any councillor for such a ward holding office immediately before the fourth day after the ordinary day of such election 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 2007.\n(5) The wards are—\n(a) Aylsham;\n(b) Blofield with South Walsham;\n(c) Brundall;\n(d) Hellesdon North West;\n(e) Hellesdon South East;\n(f) Horsford and Felthorpe;\n(g) Old Catton and Sprowston West;\n(h) Spixworth with St Faiths;\n(i) Sprowston Central;\n(j) Sprowston East;\n(k) Taverham North;\n(l) Taverham South;\n(m) Thorpe St Andrew North West;\n(n) Thorpe St Andrew South East; and\n(o) Wroxham.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/245/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:38:24.214611+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."
}