F1PART 1AArrangements with respect to local authority governance in England

CHAPTER 4Changing governance arrangements

Implementation of certain changes to governance arrangements

9LImplementation: change in form of governance or change in form of executive

(1)

This section applies if a local authority passes a resolution which makes a change in governance arrangements of the kind set out in—

(a)

section 9K F2(Committee system: change to leader and cabinet executive (England)), or

(b)

section 9KA F3(mayor and cabinet executive: adoption of leader and cabinet executive).

(2)

At a relevant change time, the local authority must—

(a)

cease operating the old form of governance or (as the case may be) old form of executive, and

(b)

start operating the form of governance or (as the case may be) form of executive which the change in governance arrangements provides for.

(3)

Subject to subsection (2) and section 9MB(2), the local authority may take steps for the purposes of preparing for the change or implementing it (including steps relating to transitional arrangements).

F4(4)

If the local authority is—

(a)

ceasing to operate the committee system, and

(b)

starting to operate a leader and cabinet executive (England),

in compliance with section 9K, a “relevant change time” for the purposes of subsection (2) is a time during the day that is specified in the resolution making the change in governance arrangements as the day on which that change is to take place.

F5(5)

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(6)

If the local authority is currently operating a mayor and cabinet executive and the change provides for the local authority to cease to operate a mayor and cabinet executive, a “relevant change time” for the purposes of subsection (2) is a time during the third day after the day on which the next ordinary election of a mayor was expected to be held when the resolution to make the change in governance arrangements was passed.