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Section 9L: Implementation: change in form of governance or change in form of executive

Local Government Act 2000 · 2000 c. 22View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 1A: Arrangements with respect to local authority governance in England — CHAPTER 4: Changing governance arrangements

This section applies if a local authority passes a resolution which makes a change in governance arrangements of the kind set out in—

section 9K (change from one form of governance to another), or
section 9KA (change to a different form of executive).

At a relevant change time, the local authority must—

cease operating the old form of governance or (as the case may be) old form of executive, and
start operating the form of governance or (as the case may be) form of executive which the change in governance arrangements provides for.

Subject to subsection (2) and section 9MB(2), the local authority may take steps for the purposes of preparing for the change or implementing it (including steps relating to transitional arrangements).

If the local authority is not currently operating a mayor and cabinet executive and the change does not provide for the local authority to operate a mayor and cabinet executive, a "relevant change time" for the purposes of subsection (2) is a time during—

the first annual meeting of the local authority to be held after the resolution to make the change in governance arrangements is passed, or
a later annual meeting of the local authority specified in that resolution.

If the local authority is not currently operating a mayor and cabinet executive and the change provides for the local authority to operate a mayor and cabinet executive, a "relevant change time" for the purposes of subsection (2) is—

a time during the third day after the day of the declaration of the result of the poll at the first election of the mayor, or
if a person is returned as the mayor at that first election without a poll being taken, a time during the third day after the day on which a poll would have been taken.

If the local authority is currently operating a mayor and cabinet executive and the change provides for the local authority to cease to operate a mayor and cabinet executive, a "relevant change time" for the purposes of subsection (2) is a time during the third day after the day on which the next ordinary election of a mayor was expected to be held when the resolution to make the change in governance arrangements was passed.

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