Style of mayor and deputy mayor
5. In section 245 of the 1972 Act(1) (status of certain districts, parishes and communities), after subsection (4), there shall be inserted—
“(4A) Where—
(a)a council are operating executive arrangements which involve a mayor and cabinet executive or a mayor and council manager executive; and
(b)the chairman or vice-chairman of the council has previously used the style of mayor or deputy mayor by virtue of subsection (4)(b), the chairman or vice-chairman, as the case may be, shall no longer use that style.”.
(1)
Section 245 was amended by section 46 of, and paragraph 11 of Schedule 3 to, the Local Government Act 2000.