{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/padstow-harbour-revision-order-1987/article-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/padstow-harbour-revision-order-1987/article-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/420",
  "legislation_title": "The Padstow Harbour Revision Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/padstow-harbour-revision-order-1987",
  "path": "article/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Casual vacancies among the elected Commissioners",
  "text": "(1) If a casual vacancy shall occur among the elected Commissioners more than six months before the vacating Commissioner would regularly have retired, the vacancy shall be filled by the election (or appointment) of a Commissioner as provided in paragraph (2) below, and the person so elected (or appointed) shall come into office on the date of his election (or appointment) and hold office during the remainder of the term of the Commissioner to whom he succeeded.\n(2) Schedule 1 to this Order shall apply to an election held under paragraph (1) above as it applies to the annual election of Commissioners other than the first but subject to the following modifications:—\n(i) for paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 there shall be substituted the following paragraph;\n“The returning officer shall make arrangements for the nomination of candidates for an election to fill a casual vacancy required by article 9(1) of this Order and during the period of four weeks beginning with the day on which the vacancy occurs shall publish notice by advertisement in one or more local newspapers circulating in the relevant area and by such other methods as the Commissioners may think fit of the time and place arranged for the nomination of candidates. The day fixed for the purpose must be at least one week after the first publication of such notice and not later than three weeks after such publication. The place fixed for this purpose must be within the relevant area.”;\n(ii) paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 shall have effect as if there were substituted for the words “immediately after the new constitution date or the 1st April in the year in question as the case may be” the words “as soon as reasonably practicable”;\n(iii) paragraph 10 of Schedule 1 shall have effect as if there were substituted for the words\n“being\n(a) for the first election, not earlier than fourteen or later than twenty-eight days after the nomination of candidates, and\n(b) in subsequent years not later than 15th March”.\nthe words\n“being not earlier than fourteen days or later than twenty-eight days after the nomination of candidates”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/420/article/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:29:57.789697+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."
}