30 October 2007
156.This section modifies the provisions in the Local Government Act 2000 in respect of the forms of executive which local authorities may operate.
157.It requires any council in England which operates executive arrangements to operate one of the following models:
Leader and cabinet executive (England);
Mayor and cabinet executive;
158.The key features of each executive model are as follows.
Leader and cabinet executive (England) – a councillor elected as leader for either a 4 year term, in the case of a local authority operating whole-council elections, or until his or her term of office as councillor expires, where the local authority instead operates elections by halves or thirds, and two or more councillors of the authority appointed to the executive by the executive leader;
Mayor and cabinet executive – a directly elected mayor who appoints two or more councillors to the executive.
159.The maximum number of members that an executive may have remains 10.