Implementation Team
10.—(1) Not later than 21 days after the coming into force of this Order the Implementation Executive must form a team of officers (“the Implementation Team”) for the purposes of—
(a)during the first transitional period, assisting the Implementation Executive in the discharge of the main transitional function and the article 7 functions; and
(b)during the second transitional period, assisting the executive of the North Yorkshire Council in the discharge of those functions.
(2) The members of the Implementation Team must include officers from both the North Yorkshire Council and each of the district councils and include the following persons—
(a)the person who for the time being is the head of paid service of the North Yorkshire Council;
(b)the head of paid service of one of the district councils;
(c)the North Yorkshire Council’s monitoring officer;
(d)the North Yorkshire Council’s chief finance officer;
(3) The leader of the Implementation Team is the person who is for the time being the head of paid service of the North Yorkshire Council.
(4) The deputy leader of the Implementation Team is the person who is specified by paragraph (2)(b).
(5) It is the duty of the North Yorkshire Council and each of the district councils to cooperate in the formation of the Implementation Team and to release the officers concerned from their normal duties at such times or for such periods as the Implementation Executive or the executive of the North Yorkshire Council may reasonably require.