SCHEDULE 1CHANGE FROM ALTERNATIVE TO EXECUTIVE ARRANGEMENTS

PART 3MISCELLANEOUS

13Failure to cease operating alternative arrangements

1

This paragraph applies if it appears to the Welsh Ministers that a local authority will fail to cease operating alternative arrangements and start operating executive arrangements in accordance with section 35.

2

The Welsh Ministers may, by order, provide for the local authority to—

a

cease to operate alternative arrangements, and

b

start to operate executive arrangements of a form specified by the Welsh Ministers (“default executive arrangements”).

3

Default executive arrangements are to be treated as having been made by the local authority itself.

4

Paragraphs 7(2) and (3)(c) to (e) apply to default executive arrangements as they apply to executive arrangements in proposals under paragraph 2.

5

The local authority must comply with those provisions of paragraph 7 (as they apply by virtue of sub-paragraph (4)) as soon as practicable after the order providing for the default executive arrangements is made by the Welsh Ministers.