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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/milford-haven-port-authority-act-2002/section-10",
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  "legislation": "ukla/2002/5",
  "legislation_title": "Milford Haven Port Authority Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/milford-haven-port-authority-act-2002",
  "path": "section/10",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Casual vacancies",
  "text": "(1) Subject to subsection (3) below, if a casual vacancy occurs in the office of a member appointed under subsection (1) of section 4 (Constitution of Authority) of this Act, the appointing body shall appoint another person to fill the vacancy.\n(2) A person appointed to fill a casual vacancy shall, subject to sections 9 (Declaration to be made by members) and 11 (Disqualification of members) of and paragraph 3 of Schedule 2 to, this Act, hold office during the remainder of the term for which the person in whose place he has been appointed was appointed.\n(3) A casual vacancy occurring less than four months before the end of the vacating member’s normal term of office may at the discretion of the appointing body be left unfilled.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2012/1154",
      "affecting_title": "The Milford Haven Port Authority (Constitution) Harbour Revision Order 2012"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/2002/5/section/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:45:22.612809+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."
}