Clause 54 - Appeal against veto
Local Government Bill
2:45 pm
Mr Christopher Leslie (Parliamentary Secretary, Cabinet Office; Shipley, Labour)
Yes. If they are entitled to vote they will have that right of appeal. As we said in the White Paper when we first made the proposals, the Secretary of State would consider the views of both the council and the rent payers who supported the BID. The council would have to show that in exercising the veto it was acting reasonably and in the interests of the wider local community.