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The Local Authorities (Elected Mayors)(Elections, Terms of Office and Casual Vacancies)(England) Regulations 2012
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8.—(1) An individual elected as elected mayor shall come into office on the fourth day after the election at which he or she was elected and, unless he or she resigns or otherwise ceases to hold office, shall hold office (subject to paragraphs (2) and (3)) until his or her successor comes into office.
(2) Where a local authority which operates a mayor and cabinet executive passes a resolution to make a change in governance arrangements of the kind set out in section 9K or 9KA, the elected mayor under the existing arrangements shall continue to hold office until the fourth day after the date on which, but for the resolution, a second or subsequent election would have been held in accordance with (as the case may be) regulation 4, 6 [F1, 7 or 7A] or section 9H(6).
(3) Where the result of a further referendum is to reject the continuation of the existing mayor and cabinet executive, the incumbent elected mayor shall continue to hold office until the local authority concerned implements the operation of the governance arrangements it operated at the time of the tainted referendum.
(4) In paragraph (3) “tainted referendum” means a referendum which an election court has declared tainted under regulation 17(5) of the Referendums Regulations.
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F1Words in reg. 8(2) substituted (29.10.2021) by The City of Liverpool (Scheme of Elections and Elections of Elected Mayor) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/1089), arts. 1(1), 4(4)
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