Version Superseded: 04/05/2012
Point in time view as at 10/07/2011. This version of this provision has been superseded.
Local Government Act 2000, Section 44E is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 08 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
(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.]
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)
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