First annual meeting of charter trustees8
1
The first annual meeting of the charter trustees shall be held—
a
within six weeks following the reorganisation date; or
b
where an election to the relevant council is to be held, within 21 days following the annual meeting of the relevant council.
2
Where there is an acting mayor, that person shall convene and preside at the first annual meeting of the charter trustees but that person shall not vote in the election unless that person is a charter trustee.
3
Where there is no acting mayor—
a
the first annual meeting shall be convened by an officer of the relevant council appointed for that purpose by that council; and
b
until the election has taken place, the chair or, if the chair is not present, the vice-chair of the relevant council shall preside over the first annual meeting but that person shall not vote in the election unless that person is a charter trustee.
4
At the first annual meeting, in the case of an equality of votes in the election, the second or presiding vote shall be given—
a
where there is an acting mayor, and that person is a charter trustee, by that person; and
b
in any other case, by the charter trustee who has served as a councillor of a predecessor council for the longest continuous period.
5
Paragraphs (3), (4), (7) and (8) of regulation 9 apply to meetings held under this regulation as they apply in relation to meetings held under regulation 9, except that paragraph 39(2) of Schedule 12 to the 1972 Act (presiding vote) shall not apply.