3—(1) Subject to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3), the formula is—N.I.
where—
S the number of members of the council who stood in the name of the party when elected;
M the number of positions of responsibility (if any) which are held by such members of the council (treating the holding of a position of responsibility for each term as a separate position of responsibility).
(2) If at the first annual meeting after a local general election the council by resolution passed by a qualified majority so decides, the formula in sub-paragraph (1) has effect as if M were doubled.
(3) Where the figures given by the formula for two or more parties are equal, each of those figures shall be recalculated with S being equal to the number of first preference votes cast for the party at the last local general election.
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 1 para. 3 in operation at 2.6.2014 for specified purposes by S.R. 2014/153, art. 3, Sch. 2