# Local Government Act 1972, Paragraph 7


(1) A parish council shall in every year hold an annual meeting.
(2) In a year which is a year of ordinary elections of parish councillors, the annual meeting of a parish council shall be held on, or within fourteen days after, the day on which the councillors elected at that election take office, and in any other year the annual meeting shall be held on such day in May as the parish council may determine.
(3) The annual meeting of a parish council shall be held at such hour as the council may fix or, if no hour is so fixed, 6 o’clock in the evening.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1972/70/schedule/12/paragraph/7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1972/schedule-12/paragraph-7
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