Statutory Instruments
2024 No. 543
Local Government, England
The Borough of Thurrock (Scheme of Elections) Order 2024
Made
22nd April 2024
Laid before Parliament
23rd April 2024
Coming into force
1st July 2024
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 86(A1), (3), (4) and (7) and 105(2) to (4) of the Local Government Act 2000(1), makes the following Order:
Citation, commencement and interpretationI1
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Borough of Thurrock (Scheme of Elections) Order 2024 and comes into force on 1st July 2024.
(2) In this Order—
“the borough” means the borough of Thurrock(2);
“the ordinary day of election of councillors” has the same meaning as in section 37 of the Representation of the People Act 1983(3).
Elections of the council of the borough of ThurrockI2
2.—(1) Subject to paragraph (4), the scheme for the ordinary elections of councillors for all wards of the borough is a scheme under which—
(a)the term of office of councillors is four years;
(b)the elections are held in a given year and every fourth year after it;
(c)all the councillors are elected in each year in which the elections are held; and
(d)the councillors retire together.
(2) The first ordinary elections of councillors under the scheme specified in paragraph (1) must be held on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2025.
(3) The councillors holding office for any ward of the borough immediately before the fourth day after the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2025 must retire on that date and the newly elected councillors for those wards must come into office on that date.
(4) The scheme specified in paragraph (1) only has effect in relation to the ordinary elections of councillors on or after the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2025.
RevocationI3
3.Article 3(1) of the Borough of Thurrock (Electoral Changes) Order 1997 is revoked(4).
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Simon Hoare
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
22nd April 2024
2000 c. 22. Subsection (A1) was inserted by section 54(3) of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (c. 28).
The non-metropolitan district of Thurrock has the status of a borough.
1983 c. 2. Relevant amendments were made by the Representation of the People Act 1985 (c. 50), section 18, by the Greater London Authority Act 1999 (c. 29), section 17 and Schedule 3 and by the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (c. 28), section 60(1) and by S.I. 2018/1310.