The Local Authorities (Changing Executive Arrangements and Alternative Arrangements) (England) Regulations 2001

Publicity for arrangements

11.—(1) Where a local authority has resolved to operate—

(a) different executive arrangements; or

(b) different alternative arrangements,

as soon as practicable after passing such a resolution, the local authority must secure that copies of a document setting out the provisions of the different arrangements are available at its principal office for inspection by members of the public at all reasonable hours.

(2) Where a local authority has resolved to operate different executive arrangements which involve an executive which takes a different form, as soon as practicable after passing such a resolution, the local authority must publish in one or more newspapers circulating in its area a notice which complies with the provisions of paragraph (3).

(3) The notice referred to in paragraph (2) must—

(a) state that the local authority has resolved to operate the arrangements;

(b) state the date on which the local authority is to begin operating those arrangements;

(c) describe the main features of those arrangements;

(d) state that copies of a document setting out the provisions of those arrangements are available at the local authority’s principal office for inspection by members of the public at such times as may be specified in the notice; and

(e) specify the address of the local authority’s principal office.

(4) Where a referendum, required by virtue of regulation 6(1), has rejected the local authority’s proposals, as soon as practicable after the holding of the referendum, the local authority must publish in one or more newspapers circulating in its area a notice which—

(a) summarises the local authority’s proposals which were the subject of the referendum;

(b) states that a referendum on the local authority’s proposals rejected those proposals;

(c) sets out the local authority’s outline fall-back proposals; and

(d) states that the existing executive arrangements or existing alternative arrangements (as summarised in the local authority’s outline fall-back proposals), as the case may be, will continue to operate.