[F144AElection of leader: whole-council electionsE+W
(1)This section applies to a local authority if itβ
(a)is subject to whole-council elections, and
(b)is, on the day of a post-election annual meeting, operating a leader and cabinet executive (England).
(2)The executive leader is to be elected at the post-election annual meeting.
(3)But if the council fails to elect the executive leader at the post-election annual meeting, an executive leader is to be elected at a subsequent meeting of the council.
(4)For the purposes of this section and section 44Dβ
(a)a local authority is subject to whole-council elections if, under the scheme for the ordinary elections of its councillors, all of the councillors are elected in each year in which the elections are held;
(b)βpost-election annual meetingβ means the first annual meeting of a local authority to be held after ordinary elections take place.]
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 44A-44H and cross-heading inserted (30.12.2007) by Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (c. 28), ss. 67, 245(2)