PART 5ELECTORAL MATTERS
Cancellation of parish council elections, etc13
1
Notwithstanding section 16(3) of the 1972 Act (election of parish councillors)—
a
elections shall not be held in 2008 for the return of councillors to the council of the following parishes—
Alberbury with Cardeston,
Ford,
Minsterley,
Pontesbury, and
Westbury;
b
elections of parish councillors for those parishes shall be held on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2009 and every four years thereafter; and
c
the term of office of the councillors elected for those parishes in 2004 or at any subsequent by-election before the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2009, shall end on the fourth day after the ordinary day of election of councillors in 200910.
2
Notwithstanding section 16(3) of the 1972 Act (election of parish councillors)—
a
elections shall not be held in 2010 for the return of councillors to the council of the following parishes—
b
elections of parish councillors for those parishes shall be held on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2009 and every four years thereafter; and
c
the term of office of the councillors elected for those parishes in 2006 or at any subsequent by-election before the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2009, shall end on the fourth day after the ordinary day of election of councillors in 200916.
3
Notwithstanding section 16(3) of the 1972 Act (election of parish councillors)—
a
elections shall not be held in 2011 for the return of councillors to the council of any parish in Shropshire;
b
elections of parish councillors for those parishes in which, but for sub-paragraph (a), elections would have been held in 2011 shall be held on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2013 and every four years thereafter; and
c
the term of office of the councillors elected for those parishes in 2007 or at any subsequent by-election before the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2013, shall end on the fourth day after the ordinary day of election of councillors in 201317.