3. On the reorganisation date—
(a)the Medina council and the South Wight council shall be abolished;
(b)any person in office as a borough councillor shall cease to hold that office;
(c)the old Medina wards and the old South Wight wards shall cease to exist;
(d)all functions of each abolished council other than functions under Chapter II of Part II of the 1990 Act(1) shall be transferred to the Island council; and
(e)the Island council shall be the sole principal council for the Island(2).
4. As from the reorganisation date, the Island council shall be renamed the Isle of Wight Council.
5.—(1) As from the establishment date, the Island council shall consist of 48 Island councillors.
(2) New elections for Island councillors shall be held on the electoral date(3).
(3) For the purposes of those new elections and of subsequent elections for the Island council—
(a)the old electoral divisions of the Island shall cease to exist; and
(b)the Island shall be divided into 48 new electoral divisions as shown on the maps and described in Schedule 1 to this Order, each new division being represented by one Island councillor.
(4) Any Island councillor in office immediately prior to the establishment date who is not re-elected as such on the electoral date shall cease to hold office on the establishment date.
(5) Island councillors elected on the electoral date shall come into office on the establishment date, and retire on 11th May 1998.
(6) The next elections for Island councillors shall be held on 7th May 1998. The councillors then elected shall come into office on 11th May 1998, and retire on the fourth day after the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2001.
In relation to town and country planning, provision is made in Part III of this Order.
The term “principal council” is defined in section 270 of the Local Government Act 1972 c. 70.
County council elections are held in accordance with Part I of the Representation of the People Act 1983 (c. 2) as amended, and the Local Elections (Principal Areas) Rules S.I. 1986/2214.