{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/district-of-cherwell-electoral-changes-order-2001/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/district-of-cherwell-electoral-changes-order-2001/article-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/4065",
  "legislation_title": "The District of Cherwell (Electoral Changes) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/district-of-cherwell-electoral-changes-order-2001",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Parish Elections",
  "text": "(1) The term of office of every parish councillor elected on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 1999 for the parish of Shipton-on-Cherwell and Thrupp shall be three years.\n(2) The term of office of every parish councillor elected on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2000 for the parishes of Hanwell, Horley, Hornton, Merton and Stratton Audley shall be two years.\n(3) The term of office of every parish councillor elected on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2000 for the parishes of Ambrosden and Bourton shall be three years.\n(4) The ordinary elections of parish councillors for the parishes of Middleton Stoney and South Newington in 2002 shall not take place; and any such parish councillor holding office immediately before 6th May 2002 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 2003.\n(5) Elections of all parish councillors for the parishes of Ambrosden, Bourton, Middleton Stoney and South Newington shall be held simultaneously on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2003 and every fourth year after 2003.\n(6) Elections of all parish councillors for the parishes listed in Schedule 5 shall be held simultaneously on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2002 and every fourth year after 2002.\n(7) Elections of all parish councillors for the parishes of Adderbury, Ardley, Arncott, Blackthorn, Bodicote, Bucknell, Caversfield, Launton, Piddington and Stoke Lyne shall be held simultaneously on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2004 and every fourth year after 2004.\n(8) The term of office of parish councillors elected in accordance with any of paragraphs 4, 5, 6 and 7 shall be four years; and they shall retire on the fourth day after the ordinary day of election of councillors in the year of retirement and the newly-elected councillors shall come into office on the day on which their predecessors retire.\n(9) 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 5th May 2003 in the office of a parish councillor for the parishes of Middleton Stoney and South Newington 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 5th May 2003.",
  "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/2001/4065/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:17:48.197474+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."
}