Parish elections
4.—(1) The term of office of every parish councillor elected on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2000 for the parishes of Atcham, Berrington and Bicton shall be three years.
(2) Elections of all parish councillors for the parishes of Atcham, Berrington and Bicton shall be held simultaneously on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2003 and every fourth year after 2003.
(3) The ordinary elections of parish councillors for the parishes of Minsterley and Pontesbury in 2003 shall not take place; and any such parish councillor holding office immediately before 5th May 2003 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 fourth day after the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2004.
(4) Elections of all parish councillors for the parishes of Minsterley and Pontesbury shall be held simultaneously on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2004 and every fourth year after 2004.
(5) Elections of all parish councillors for the parish of Wroxeter and Uppington shall be held simultaneously on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2004, 2006 and every fourth year after 2006.
(6) The term of office of every parish councillor elected on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2004 for the parish of Wroxeter and Uppington shall be two years; and each such councillor shall, unless he resigns his office or it otherwise becomes vacant, continue to hold office until the fourth day after the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2006.
(7) Where any provision of an order made before the making of this Order requires an election of parish councillors for a parish mentioned in paragraph (2) or (5) to be held on a date other than that for which that paragraph provides, it shall cease to have effect to that extent.
(8) Rule 8 of the Local Elections (Parishes and Communities) Rules 1986(1) (filling of casual vacancies) shall have effect, in the case of a casual vacancy occuring before 8th May 2004 in the office of a parish councillor for the parishes of Minsterley and Pontesbury as if the references in paragraphs (1) and (4) of that rule to the day on which that councillor would regularly have retired were a reference to 8th May 2004.
S.I. 1986/2215, to which there are amendments not relevant to the Order.