Elections to fill casual vacancies
4. In relation to a casual vacancy in the office of a councillor of a county council in England, London borough, district or parish council who would regularly have retired on the fourth day after the ordinary day of election in 2014—
(a)section 89(3) of the 1972 Act has effect as if for the words “six months before the day on which the councillor whose office is vacant would regularly have retired” there were substituted the words “the period of six months immediately before the date of the poll at the European Parliamentary general election held in 2014”; and
(b)paragraphs (3) and (6) of rule 5 of the Local Elections (Parishes and Communities) (England and Wales) Rules 2006(1) have effect as if for the words “six months before the day on which that councillor would regularly have retired” there were substituted the words “the period of six months immediately before the date of the poll at the European Parliamentary election held in 2014”.