LAKE PARISH COUNCIL CO-OPTION OF A MEMBER

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LAKE PARISH COUNCIL – CO-OPTION OF A MEMBER

The Parish Council will consider the co-option of a person to serve on the LAKE Parish Council at a meeting to be held on 11 July 2024.

Persons wishing to be considered and who are eligible* to serve as a Parish Councillor should notify the Parish Clerk in writing, under their own signature by 28 June 2024.

Prospective candidates will be asked to make a short presentation to the Parish Council on how they can contribute to the Parish Council and the community of Lake.

Dated:  31 May 2024       Signed: Richard Priest – Parish Clerk

* A local councillor must be 18 years of age or over and a British subject or qualifying Commonwealth citizen, a citizen of the Republic of Ireland or a citizen of another Member State of the European Community

He/she must also fulfil at least one of the following criteria:-

  1. During the whole of the 12 months before nomination occupied land or premises as owner or tenant in the parish area, or,
  2. During the same period resided in the Parish, or within 4.8 k.m’s thereof, or
  • During the same period had his/her principal or only place of work in that Parish, or

3.  At the time of nomination be registered as a local government elector for the administrative area of the Parish.

The person should not be disqualified from being elected by reason of any disqualification set out in, or decision made under, sections 80 or 81A of the Local Government Act 1972 or section 34 of the Localism Act 2011.