The East Sussex (Boroughs of Brighton and Hove) (Structural Change) Order 1995

Suspension of elections and retirement of councillors

14.—(1) The ordinary election of councillors in 1996 for any ward in Brighton shall not take place; and any councillor for such a ward holding office immediately before the relevant date who would, but for this paragraph, have retired on that date shall, unless he resigns his office or it otherwise becomes vacant, continue to hold office until the reorganisation date.

(2) The electoral divisions of East Sussex comprised in Brighton and Hove 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 date(1).

(3) Section 89 of the 1972 Act (filling of casual vacancies in case of councillors) shall have effect—

(a) in the case of a casual vacancy occurring in the office of councillor of Brighton Council or Hove Council after 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 reorganisation date; and

(b) in the case of a casual vacancy occurring in the office of councillor for any electoral division referred to in paragraph (2) above, as if that reference in that subsection were a reference to the reorganisation date.

(1)

The electoral divisions of the county of East Sussex are constituted by the County of East Sussex (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1982 (S.I. 1982/535).