The North Yorkshire (District of York) (Structural and Boundary Changes) Order 1995

Suspension of elections and retirement of councillors

9.—(1) The ordinary election of councillors in 1995 for any ward described in Schedule 2 shall not take place; and any councillor for such a ward holding office immediately before 8th May 1995 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 councillor for the Upper Poppleton ward of the borough of Harrogate who would, but for this paragraph, have retired on 6th May 1996 shall, unless he resigns his office or it otherwise becomes vacant, retire on the reorganisation date.

(3) The electoral divisions of North Yorkshire described in Schedule 3 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.

(4) Section 89 of the 1972 Act (filling of casual vacancies in case of councillors) shall have effect, in relation to a casual vacancy occurring in the office of councillor for any relevant electoral area, 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, for this purpose, “relevant electoral area” means a ward described in Schedule 2, the Upper Poppleton ward of the borough of Harrogate or an electoral division described in Schedule 3.