Clause 44
Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill
6:30 pm
Andrew Stunell (Shadow Secretary of State for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (Communities and Local Government), Department for Communities and Local Government; Hazel Grove, Liberal Democrat)
I beg to move amendment No. 105, in clause 44, page 31, line 25, at end insert—
‘(5A) Such termination shall not take place until the end of a period of three months after the elected leader ceases to hold office or until the election of a new elected executive, whichever is the sooner.’.
The amendment relates to what happens when the leader steps down. The Bill provides that when the leader steps down the entire executive falls with him. I said in an earlier debate that if the leader was to go under a bus today, with the budget being in three weeks’ time, it would be somewhat inconvenient. If, in an election year, the leader were knocked down by a bus on 11 November and were due to retire from the council the following May, under the six-month rule—