1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Slough (Electoral Changes) Order 2023.
(2) This article and article 2 come into force on the day after the day on which this Order is made.
(3) Articles 3 comes into force—
(a)for the purpose of proceedings preliminary or relating to the election of councillors(1), on the day after the day on which this Order is made;
(b)for all other purposes, on the ordinary day of election of councillors in England(2) in 2023.
(4) This Order extends to England and Wales but applies in relation to England only.
Slough Borough Council at a meeting on 18th January 2022 resolved to move to four-yearly whole council elections, where all councillors will be elected collectively for a period of four years commencing with local elections to be held in 2023. The minutes of the meeting are accessible at https://democracy.slough.gov.uk/mgAi.aspx?ID=44488. A hard copy of those minutes is available from Slough Borough Council, Observatory House, 25 Windsor Road, Slough SL1 2EL.
The ordinary day of election of councillors in England is prescribed by section 37(1) of the Representation of the People Act 1983 (c. 2), as amended by section 18(2) of the Representation of the People Act 1985 (c. 50), renumbered by paragraph 5 of Schedule 3 to the Greater London Authority Act 1999 (c. 29), and further amended by section 6(16) of the Wales Act 2017 (c. 4).