(1) If a
member’s office becomes vacant under section 2.32 on or after the third
Saturday in July in the election year in which the term of the office would
have ended under the Table to section 2.28, the vacancy is to remain unfilled
and the term of the member who held the office is to be regarded in
section 4.6 as ending on the day on which it would have ended if the vacancy
had not occurred.
(2) If a
member’s office becomes vacant under section 2.32 —
(a)
after the third Saturday in October in the year before the election year in
which the term of the office would have ended under the Table to section 2.28;
but
(b)
before the third Saturday in July in that election year,
the council may, with
the approval of the Electoral Commissioner, allow the vacancy to remain
unfilled and, in that case, the term of the member who held the office is to
be regarded in section 4.6 as ending on the day on which it would have ended
if the vacancy had not occurred.
[(3)-(4) deleted]
[Section 4.17 amended: No. 49 of 2004 s. 31; No.
66 of 2006 s. 8; No. 17 of 2009 s. 12; No. 11 of 2023 s. 28.]