Schedule 2 ORDER OF RETIREMENT OF COUNCILLORS
Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:
| Name of New Ward | Number of Councillors to retire in 2000 | Number of Councillors to retire in 2002 | Number of Councillors to retire in 2003 |
| Brookmans Park and Little Heath | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Haldens | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Handside | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Hatfield Central | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Hatfield East | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Hatfield North | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Hatfield South | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Hatfield West | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Hollybush | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Howlands | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Panshanger | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Peartree | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Northaw | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Sherrards | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Welham Green | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Welwyn South | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Welwyn North | 0 | 1 | 1 |