{"id":5557,"date":"2024-09-16T04:11:53","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T04:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wembdonparish.gov.uk\/?p=5557"},"modified":"2024-09-17T04:55:35","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T04:55:35","slug":"parish-councillor-vacancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wembdonparish.gov.uk\/?p=5557","title":{"rendered":"Parish Councillor vacancy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There is one vacancy in the office of Wembdon Parish Councillor, representing Wembdon Victoria Ward.  This vacancy has arisen following the resignation of Chris Chalk as a councillor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To qualify as a Councillor a person must be aged 18 years or older and be a citizen of the United Kingdom, any EU Country or any Commonwealth country and also meet one or more of the following criteria:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Is, and thereafter continues to be, a local government elector in the parish of Wembdon or<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>During the whole of the 12 months preceding the date of appointment has occupied as owner or tenant any premises in the parish of Wembdon or<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>During the whole of the 12 months preceding the date of appointment has had a principle or only place of work in the parish of Wembdon or<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>During the whole of the 12 months preceding the date of appointment has resided either in the parish of Wembdon or within three miles of it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>There are a number of reasons why a person may not stand for this position.&nbsp; These include if the person:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Is subject to a bankruptcy restrictions order, or an interim bankruptcy restriction order, or a debt relief restrictions order, or an interim debt restrictions order or<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Is named on the Register of Sex Offenders.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Has, within five years before the date of appointment, or since being appointed, been convicted of an offence in the UK, Channel Islands or Isle of Man which has imposed a sentence of imprisonment of three months or more (whether suspended or not) without the option of a fine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Any person who is qualified to stand as a Councillor, and is interested in applying for this volunteer position, is asked to email the Parish Clerk at <a href=\"mailto:clerk@wembdonparish.gov.uk\">clerk@wembdonparish.gov.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The notice of the vacancy can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/wembdonparish.gov.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Notice-of-Casual-Vacancy-16.9.24.pdf\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is one vacancy in the office of Wembdon Parish Councillor, representing Wembdon Victoria Ward. This vacancy has arisen following the resignation of Chris Chalk as a councillor. To qualify as a Councillor a person must be aged 18 years or older and be a citizen of the United Kingdom, any EU Country or any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wembdonparish.gov.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wembdonparish.gov.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wembdonparish.gov.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wembdonparish.gov.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wembdonparish.gov.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5557"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wembdonparish.gov.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5568,"href":"https:\/\/wembdonparish.gov.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5557\/revisions\/5568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wembdonparish.gov.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wembdonparish.gov.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wembdonparish.gov.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}