The Bedfordshire (Structural Changes) Order 2008 No. 907

PART 2 E+W ESTABLISHMENT OF SINGLE TIER LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN BEDFORD AND CENTRAL BEDFORDSHIRE

County of Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire County Council and councillors of that Council E+W

5.—(1) On 1st April 2009—

(a) the county of Bedfordshire shall be abolished as a local government area; and

(b) the County Council shall be wound up and dissolved.

(2) The term of office of persons serving as councillors of the County Council immediately before 1st April 2009 shall end on that date.

(3) Nothing in section 89 of the 1972 Act (filling of casual vacancies in case of councillors) shall authorise the holding of an election to fill a casual vacancy in the office of councillor of the County Council where that vacancy arises after 30th September 2008 and before 1st April 2009.

Commencement Information

I1 Art. 5 in force at 28.3.2008, see art. 1