Part II E+W Arrangements with respect to executives etc.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Pt. II (ss. 10-48) restricted (W.) (1.4.2002) by S.I. 2002/808, art. 23(a)

C2 Pt. II extended (1.9.2003 for E., 1.9.2003 for W.) by Education Act 2002 (c. 32), ss. 183(4)(b), 216(4) (with ss. 210(8), 214(4)); S.I. 2003/1667, art. 4; S.I. 2003/1718, art. 5, Sch. Pt. II

C3 Pt. II modified (21.6.2004) by Isles of Scilly (Functions) (Review and Scrutiny of Health Services) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/1412), arts. 1, 2

C4 Pt. II applied in part (with modifications) (5.3.2008) by The Cheshire (Structural Changes) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/634), arts. 1, 7(4)

C5 Pt. II applied in part (with modifications) (28.3.2008) by The Bedfordshire (Structural Changes) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/907), arts. 1, 16(7)

C6 Pt. II modified (29.8.2008) by The Local Government (Structural Changes) (Transitional Arrangements) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/2113), regs. 1, 10

[F1 Leader and cabinet executives (England) E+W

Textual Amendments

F1 Ss. 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)

44E Term of office of leader: partial-council elections E+W

(1) This section applies to the executive leader of a local authority which—

(a) is operating a leader and cabinet executive (England), and

(b) is subject to partial-council elections.

(2) The executive leader's term of office starts on the day of his election.

(3) The executive leader's term of office ends on the day when the council holds its first annual meeting after the leader's normal day of retirement as a councillor.

(4) But that is subject to subsections (5) and (6).

(5) If the executive leader is removed from office in accordance with section 44C, his term of office ends on the day of his removal.

(6) If the local authority becomes subject to whole-council elections, the executive leader's term of office ends on the day of the annual meeting which follows the first whole-council elections.

(7) For the purposes of this section an executive leader's normal day of retirement as a councillor is the day when the leader would next be required to retire as a councillor of the council if section 44F were disregarded.]