PART 7

COMMUNITIES AND COMMUNITY COUNCILS
CHAPTER 1

COMMUNITY MEETINGS AND COMMUNITY POLLS

Consideration of result of community poll by community council
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After paragraph 26 of Schedule 12 to the Local Government Act 1972 insert the following—
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This paragraph applies where a community council has been given a notice under sub-paragraph (4) or (5)(b) of paragraph 38B below.
2
The community council must ensure that the question of what action (if any) the council should take in response to the community poll, or the part of the community poll, to which the notice relates is included within the business to be transacted at a meeting of the community council held within the relevant period.
3
If it is necessary for the chairman of the community council to exercise his power under paragraph 25(1) above to call an extraordinary meeting of a community council in order for the community council to comply with sub-paragraph (2) above, the chairman must so exercise that power.
4
In sub-paragraph (2) “relevant period” means the period of six weeks beginning with the day following that on which the notice referred to in sub-paragraph (1) was given.
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