{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/district-of-cannock-chase-electoral-changes-order-2001/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/district-of-cannock-chase-electoral-changes-order-2001/article-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/1442",
  "legislation_title": "The District of Cannock Chase (Electoral Changes) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/district-of-cannock-chase-electoral-changes-order-2001",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Parish elections",
  "text": "(1) The term of office of every parish councillor elected on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2000 for the parish of Cannock Wood shall be three years; and each such councillor 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 2003.\n(2) Elections of all parish councillors for the parish of Cannock Wood shall be held simultaneously on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2003 and every fourth year after 2003.\n(3) The councillors elected in accordance with paragraph (2) in 2003 shall come into office on the day on which their predecessors retire.\n(4) Where any provision of an Order made before the making of this Order requires an election of parish councillors for the parish of Cannock Wood to be held on a date other than that for which paragraph (1) of this article provides, it shall cease to have effect to that extent.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See the Cannock Chase (Parishes) Order 1987 (S.I. 1987/2259) as amended by the Cannock Chase (Parishes) Order 1987 (Variation of Supplementary Provision) Order 1988 (S.I. 1988/1872)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1442/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:50:45.814099+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."
}