Local Government Act 2000

[F1 44B Election of leader: partial-council elections E+W

(1) This section applies to a local authority if it—

(a) is subject to partial-council elections, and

(b) is, on the day of a relevant annual meeting, operating a leader and cabinet executive (England).

(2) The executive leader is to be elected at the relevant annual meeting.

(3) But if the council fails to elect the executive leader at the relevant annual meeting, the executive leader is to be elected at a subsequent meeting of the council.

(4) For the purposes of this section and section 44E—

(a) a local authority is subject to partial-council elections if, under the scheme for the ordinary elections of its councillors, one-half or one-third (or, in either case, as nearly as may be) of the councillors are elected in each year in which the elections are held;

(b) “relevant annual meeting” means—

(i) the first annual meeting to be held after the local authority starts to operate the leader and cabinet executive (England), or

(ii) any subsequent annual meeting held on a day when an executive leader's term of office is to end by virtue of section 44E(3).]

Textual Amendments

F1 Ss. 44A-44H and cross-heading inserted (30.12.2007) by Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (c. 28), ss. 67, 245(2)