Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007

35 Publicity E+W

(1) A council must comply with this section as soon as practicable after passing a resolution for whole-council elections.

(2) The council must produce an explanatory document.

(3) The council must make the explanatory document—

(a) available for public inspection at the council's principal office at all reasonable times, and

(b) available to the public by such other means as the council thinks appropriate.

(4) The council must publicise these matters—

(a) that the council has become subject to the scheme for whole-council elections under section 34;

(b) when elections will first take place in accordance with the scheme;

(c) how the explanatory document is available in accordance with subsection (3);

(d) the address of the council's principal office.

(5) It is for the council to decide how those matters are to be publicised.

(6) An explanatory document is a document which sets out details of the new electoral scheme as it applies to the council.

Commencement Information

I1 S. 35 in force at 30.12.2007, see s. 245(2)