PART 7COMMUNITIES AND COMMUNITY COUNCILS
CHAPTER 1COMMUNITY MEETINGS AND COMMUNITY POLLS
I190Facility for the provision of electronic notices of the convening of community meetings
After paragraph 30B of Schedule 12 to the Local Government Act 1972 insert the following—
30C
1
A principal council must provide a facility so that notices under paragraph 30B(1)(b) above may be given to the council in electronic form (“electronic notices”).
2
The council must set and, to such extent as the council considers appropriate, publicise the following requirements for electronic notices—
a
the authentication requirements to be met by an electronic signature included within an electronic notice, and
b
the other technical requirements to be met by and in relation to an electronic notice.