15. Notwithstanding section 16(3) of the 1972 Act (election of parish councillors)—
(a)elections are not to be held in 2023 or in 2024 for the return of councillors to the council of any parish in North Yorkshire;
(b)elections of parish councillors for those parishes in which, but for paragraph (a), elections would have been held in 2023 or in 2024 are to be held on the ordinary day of elections in 2022 and 2027 and every four years thereafter;
(c)the term of office of parish councillors elected prior to the ordinary day of elections in 2022 ends on the fourth day after the ordinary day of elections in 2022;
(d)the term of office of parish councillors elected in 2022 or at any subsequent by-election held before the ordinary day of election in 2027 ends on the fourth day after the ordinary day of elections in 2027(1).
Under section 16(3) of the Local Government Act 1972, the term of office of parish councillors is four years.