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Localism Bill

153: Schedule 2, page 237, line 20, leave out from beginning to first ““the”” in line 33 and insert— ““(3) Subject to subsection (2) and section 9MB(2), the local authority may take steps for the purposes of preparing for the change or implementing it (including steps relating to transitional arrangements). (4) If the local authority is not currently operating a mayor and cabinet executive and the change does not provide for the local authority to operate a mayor and cabinet executive, a ““relevant change time”” for the purposes of subsection (2) is a time during— (a) the first annual meeting of the local authority to be held after the resolution to make the change in governance arrangements is passed, or (b) a later annual meeting of the local authority specified in that resolution. (5) If the local authority is not currently operating a mayor and cabinet executive and the change provides for the local authority to operate a mayor and cabinet executive, a ““relevant change time”” for the purposes of subsection (2) is— (a) a time during the third day after the day of the declaration of the result of the poll at the first election of the mayor, or (b) if a person is returned as the mayor at that first election without a poll being taken, a time during the third day after the day on which a poll would have been taken. (6) If the local authority is currently operating a mayor and cabinet executive and the change provides for the local authority to cease to operate a mayor and cabinet executive, a ““relevant change time”” for the purposes of subsection (2) is a time during the third day after”” 154: Schedule 2, page 237, leave out lines 36 to 39 Amendments 153 and 154 agreed. Amendment 155 Moved by