PART 3 E+W PROMOTING ACCESS TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Valid from 05/05/2022

CHAPTER 3 E+W CONSTITUTION GUIDES

45 Principal councils' duty to publish constitution and constitution guide E+W

(1) Section 37 of the 2000 Act (local authority constitution) is amended as follows.

(2) After subsection (1) insert—

“(1A) A local authority must prepare and keep up to date a document (referred to in this section as their constitution guide) which explains, in ordinary language, the content of their constitution.”

(3) In subsection (2)—

(a) after “must” insert “—

(a) publish their constitution and their constitution guide electronically and in such other manner as they consider appropriate, and

(b)” ;

(b) after “copies of their constitution” insert “ and their constitution guide ”.

(4) In subsection (3)—

(a) after “constitution” insert “ or, as the case may be, their constitution guide ”;

(b) for the words from “who requests” to the end of the subsection, substitute “ on request, either free of charge or at a charge representing no more than the cost of providing the copy ”.