Bishop Aukland, Bridlington Town, Bamber Bridge and Spennymoor United were relegated to the First Division;[1] these four clubs were replaced by relegated Conference North sides Runcorn Halton, Ashton United and Bradford Park Avenue.
The end of this season saw Spennymoor United fail to fulfil nine of their league fixtures after folding.
Subsequent to this meeting the member clubs of Gateshead, Radcliffe Borough, Hyde United and Workington appealed to the Football Association (the FA) against the decision.
The FA ruled that the Northern Premier League was bound by an undertaking, duly minuted at its management committee meeting in January, that Spennymoor United would not be expelled, nor its record for the season expunged.
Farsley Celtic celebrated winning the Championship on the last day of the season, ignoring the fact that the original meeting on 24 April did not have a quorum however, as a result of the new overruling finished third in the table.
Burscough, who had slipped from fifth to sixth, and out of the final promotion play-off place, thanks to Prescot Cables being awarded six points due to their two unplayed games against Spennymoor United, were aggrieved by this decision and, on 11 May, attempted to get the FA to go to arbitration.