Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70)

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 12 E+W Meetings and Proceedings of Local Authorities

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Sch. 12 modified (5.11.2008) by The Local Elections (Ordinary Day of Elections in 2009) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2857), art. 6

C2 Sch. 12 excluded by Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51, SIF 81:1), ss. 1, 86(9)

C3 Sch. 12 modified by S.I. 1987/2110, art. 2(2), Sch. 1 para. 2(4)

C4 Sch. 12 applied with modifications by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1), s. 160(2)

Sch. 12: power conferred to make provisions about matters of the kind dealt with in this Schedule (1.9.1997) by 1997 c. 50, s. 44(1), Sch. 4(a)(ii); S.I. 1997/1930, art. 2(1)(2)(m)

C5 Sch. 12 modified (E.) (7.9.2013) by The Local Elections (Ordinary Day of Elections in 2014) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/2277), arts. 1(1), 5

C6 Sch. 12 modified (E.) (4.4.2020) by The Local Authorities and Police and Crime Panels (Coronavirus) (Flexibility of Local Authority and Police and Crime Panel Meetings) (England and Wales) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/392), regs. 1, 6 (with reg. 2(4))

C7 Sch. 12 modified (W.) (22.4.2020) by The Local Authorities (Coronavirus) (Meetings) (Wales) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/442), regs. 1(3), 7

C8 Sch. 12 modified (W.) (22.4.2020) by The Local Authorities (Coronavirus) (Meetings) (Wales) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/442), regs. 1(3), 6

C9 Sch. 12 modified (E.) (4.4.2020) by The Local Authorities and Police and Crime Panels (Coronavirus) (Flexibility of Local Authority and Police and Crime Panel Meetings) (England and Wales) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/392), regs. 1, 6 (with reg. 2(4)) (as amended (1.8.2020) by The Local Authorities and Police and Crime Panels (Coronavirus) (Flexibility of Local Authority and Police and Crime Panel Meetings) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/808), regs. 1, 2(3))

Part II E+W Parish Councils

7 (1) A parish council shall in every year hold an annual meeting. E+W

(2) In a year which is a year of ordinary elections of parish councillors, the annual meeting of a parish council shall be held on, or within fourteen days after, the day on which the councillors elected at that election take office, and in any other year the annual meeting shall be held on such day in May as the parish council may determine.

(3) The annual meeting of a parish council shall be held at such hour as the council may fix or, if no hour is so fixed, 6 o’clock in the evening.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C10 Sch. 12 para. 7(2) modified (25.5.2001 with effect for the year 2001) by S.I. 2001/1630, art. 3