Part 2Electoral arrangements
C1Chapter 1Power of district councils in England to change electoral scheme
Power of district councils to change to whole-council elections
I133Resolution for whole-council elections: requirements
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A council must comply with this section in passing a resolution for whole-council elections.
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The council must not pass the resolution unless it has taken reasonable steps to consult such persons as it thinks appropriate on the proposed change.
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The resolution must be passed—
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at a meeting which is specially convened for the purpose of deciding the resolution with notice of the object, and
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by a majority of at least two thirds of the members voting on it.
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The resolution must specify the year for the first ordinary elections of the council at which all councillors are to be elected.
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In the case of a district council for a district in a county for which there is a county council, the year specified under subsection (3A) may not be a county-council-elections year; and here “county-council-elections year” means 2013 and every fourth year afterwards.
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In subsection (3) the reference to the members of the council includes, in a case where the council are operating a mayor and cabinet executive, the elected mayor of the council.
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Pt. 2 Ch. 1: transfer of functions (1.4.2010) by Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009 (c. 20), ss. 60(2)(3)(b), 148(3)(b) (with s. 63(1)(4)); S.I. 2009/3318, art. 4(i)