Article 11 Retirement of councillors
The electoral divisions of Hampshire comprised in Portsmouth and Southampton shall cease to be electoral divisions on the reorganisation date; and any person holding office, immediately before that date, as a councillor for such a division shall retire on that datef1.
Section 89 of the 1972 Act (filling of casual vacancies in case of councillors) shall have effect—
in the case of a casual vacancy occurring in the office of councillor of a transferee authority during the period beginning with the date on which this article comes into force and ending with the relevant date, as if the reference in subsection (3) of that section to the day on which the councillor whose office is vacant would regularly have retired were a reference to the relevant date; and
in the case of a casual vacancy occurring in the office of councillor for any electoral division described in paragraph (1) above as if the reference in that subsection were a reference to the reorganisation date.
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Footnotes
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The areas of the electoral divisions are as set out in the County of Hampshire (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1981 (S.I. 1981/51).