(a) ordinary elections are not to be held in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2026 or in 2027 for the return of councillors to the council of any parish within the non-metropolitan district of North Northamptonshire and the non-metropolitan district of West Northamptonshire; 

(b) the term of office of parish councillors elected at the ordinary elections in 2020 or in any earlier year or at any subsequent by-election held before the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2025 ends on the fourth day after the ordinary day of elections in 2025( a ); 

(c) ordinary elections of parish councillors for those parishes in which, but for paragraph (a), elections would have been held in 2021, 2022 or 2023 are to be held on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2025 and every fourth year thereafter; 

(d) the term of office of parish councillors elected at the ordinary elections in 2025 or at any subsequent by-election held before the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2029 ends on the fourth day after the ordinary day of elections in 2029; and 

(e) ordinary elections of parish councillors for those parishes in which, but for paragraph (a), elections would have been held in 2026 or 2027 are to be held on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2029 and every fourth year thereafter. 

## FURTHER TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS 

## PART 5 

## Functions of the county council, the North Northamptonshire councils and the West Northamptonshire councils 

22. —(1) There is added to the functions of the county council the function, which is exercisable only in the transitional period beginning on the coming into force of this Order and ending on the fourteenth day after the 2020 election day, of preparing for and facilitating the economic, effective, efficient and timely transfer to the North Northamptonshire Council, of such of its functions, property, rights and liabilities as relate to North Northamptonshire and its inhabitants. 

(2) There is added to the functions of the county council the function, which is exercisable only in the transitional period beginning on the coming into force of this Order and ending on the fourteenth day after the 2020 election day, of preparing for and facilitating the economic, effective, efficient and timely transfer to the West Northamptonshire Council, of such of its functions, property, rights and liabilities as relate to West Northamptonshire and its inhabitants. 

(3) There is added to the functions of each of the North Northamptonshire councils the function, which is exercisable only in the transitional period beginning on the coming into force of this Order and ending on the fourteenth day after the 2020 election day, of preparing for and facilitating the economic, effective, efficient and timely transfer to the North Northamptonshire Council of its functions, property, rights and liabilities. 

(4) There is added to the functions of each of the West Northamptonshire councils the function, which is exercisable only in the transitional period beginning on the coming into force of this Order and ending on the fourteenth day after the 2020 election day, of preparing for and facilitating the economic, effective, efficient and timely transfer to the West Northamptonshire Council of its functions, property, rights and liabilities. 

## Joint committees 

23. —(1) Not later than 14 days after the coming into force of this Order— 

