The Charter Trustees Regulations 2009

Mayors: appointment, term of office, etc.

7.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), charter trustees may in every year elect one of their number to be mayor and another to be deputy mayor.

(2) Where, on the reorganisation date, there is a councillor on the relevant council who immediately before that date was mayor for all or part of the area for which charter trustees have been established, that person (for the purpose of regulation 8, the “acting mayor”) shall continue in that role for the charter trustees after the reorganisation date until the election for which provision is made by paragraph (3) (for the purposes of this regulation and of regulation 8, “the election”) has taken place.

(3) Subject to any appointment to be made under paragraphs (2) and (3) of regulation 6, the election of a mayor and, as the case may be, deputy mayor shall be the first business transacted at the annual meeting of charter trustees.

(4) A person ceases to be a mayor or deputy mayor upon ceasing to be a charter trustee or if not re-elected to office.

(5) On a casual vacancy occurring in the office of mayor or deputy mayor, the charter trustees shall, as soon as practicable, meet for the purposes of electing one of their number to such office.

(6) Charter trustees shall pay the mayor and deputy mayor such allowance as they think reasonable for the purpose of enabling those persons to meet the expenses of office.