{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/district-of-purbeck-electoral-changes-order-1998/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/district-of-purbeck-electoral-changes-order-1998/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/2159",
  "legislation_title": "The District of Purbeck (Electoral Changes) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/district-of-purbeck-electoral-changes-order-1998",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Parish elections",
  "text": "(1) The term of office of any parish councillor elected on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 1999 for the parishes of Arne and East Stoke shall be three years.\n(2) Elections of all parish councillors for the parishes of Affpuddle and Turnerspuddle, Bere Regis, Chaldon Herring, Church Knowle, East Lulworth, Langton Matravers, Lytchett Matravers, Morden, Moreton, West Lulworth, Winfrith Newburgh and Worth Matravers shall be held simultaneously on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2002 and every fourth year after 2002.\n(3) Except as otherwise provided in the foregoing paragraphs of this article, the term of office of councillors shall be four years and all councillors 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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2159/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:19:59.972015+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."
}