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Section 24: Timetables for changing English district councils' electoral schemes

Localism Act 2011 · 2011 c. 20View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 1: Local Government — CHAPTER 5: Governance

The Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 is amended as follows.

Omit the following provisions (which provide that councils may pass resolutions to change their electoral schemes only in certain permitted periods)—

section 33(4), (6) and (7) (district councils changing to whole-council elections),
section 38(4), (6) and (7) (non-metropolitan district councils reverting to elections by halves), and
section 40(4), (6) and (7) (district councils reverting to elections by thirds).

In section 33 (resolution for whole-council elections: requirements) after subsection (3) insert—

In section 34(2) (years in which whole-council elections to a district council are to be held if scheme under section 34 applies) for paragraphs (a) and (b) substitute—

In section 34 (scheme for whole-council elections) after subsection (4) insert—

After section 31 insert—

In section 57 of the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009 (requests for review of single-member electoral areas by councils subject to a scheme for whole-council elections) after subsection (4) (meaning of "subject to a scheme for whole-council elections") insert—

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