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This Order may be cited as the Gloucestershire Districts (Electoral Arrange-ments) (Variation) Order 1991, and shall come into force on 1st December 1991.
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(1) The Gloucestershire Districts (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1991 shall be varied as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3).
(2) There shall be substituted for article 3(8) of that Order—“
(8) Subject to paragraph (9) below, of the councillors elected for the Leckhampton with Up Hatherley ward, for the Hatherley and The Reddings ward and for the Prestbury ward on the ordinary day of elections in 1991—
(a) the councillor of each ward elected by the smallest number of votes cast in that election for that ward shall retire in 1992;
(b) the councillor for each ward elected by the second smallest number of votes cast in the election for that ward shall retire in 1994; and
(c) the others shall retire in 1995.”.
(3) There shall be substituted for article 3(9)—“
(9) If in relation to any of those wards an equality of votes between any persons elected makes it uncertain which of them is to retire in any such year, the councillor of the ward in question who is to retire in that year shall be determined by lot.”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment
Robert Key
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of the Environment
29th November 1991