{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/district-of-the-medway-towns-parishes-and-electoral-changes-order-1997/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/district-of-the-medway-towns-parishes-and-electoral-changes-order-1997/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/776",
  "legislation_title": "The District of the Medway Towns (Parishes and Electoral Changes) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/district-of-the-medway-towns-parishes-and-electoral-changes-order-1997",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Elections of the council of the Medway Towns",
  "text": "(1) Elections of all councillors for wards of the district shall be held simultaneously on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 1997, 2000 and 2003 and every fourth year after 2003.\n(2) The term of office of any councillor so elected shall be, in the case of councillors elected in 1997 and 2000, three years and, in any other case, four years.\n(3) On the fourth day after any such elections—\n(a) the persons who were councillors immediately before those elections shall retire; and\n(b) the newly elected councillors shall come into office.\n(4) Articles 9 and 10 of the Kent (Borough of Gillingham and City of Rochester upon Medway) (Structural Change) Order 1996 shall be revoked.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "For the ordinary day of election of councillors of local government areas, see section 37 of the Representation of the People Act 1983 (c. 2), amended by section 18(2) of the Representation of the People Act 1985 (c. 50)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/1876; articles 9 and 10 make provision similar to that made in article 4 of this Order."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/776/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:21:19.859460+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."
}