Local Government (Wales) Measure 2011

Prospective

Failure to cease operating alternative arrangements E+W

13 (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. E+W

(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.