SCHEDULES

C1C2C3C4 SCHEDULE 12 Meetings and Proceedings of Local Authorities

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Modifications etc. (not altering text)
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Sch. 12 applied with modifications by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1), s. 160(2)

Sch. 12: power conferred to make provisions about matters of the kind dealt with in this Schedule (1.9.1997) by 1997 c. 50, s. 44(1), Sch. 4(a)(ii); S.I. 1997/1930, art. 2(1)(2)(m)

Part V Community Meetings

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1

This paragraph applies to a poll (other than a poll to which sub-paragraph (2) below refers) consequent on a community meeting where a majority of those voting were in favour of the question in relation to which the poll was taken.

2

This paragraph does not apply to a poll taken on a question of a type specified in regulations made by the Welsh Ministers.

3

The returning officer in relation to the poll must give notice in writing to the monitoring officer (within the meaning of section 5 of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989) of the relevant principal council of—

a

the question posed by the poll, and

b

the fact that that a majority of those voting were in favour of that question.

4

In sub-paragraph (3) above, “relevant principal council” means the principal council in whose area lies the community of the community meeting at which the poll was demanded.

5

The power of the Welsh Ministers to make regulations under sub-paragraph (2) above is exercisable by statutory instrument.

6

A statutory instrument which contains regulations under sub-paragraph (2) above is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of the National Assembly for Wales.