{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/english-devolution-and-community-empowerment-act-2026/schedule-29/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/english-devolution-and-community-empowerment-act-2026/schedule-29/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2026/23",
  "legislation_title": "English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/english-devolution-and-community-empowerment-act-2026",
  "path": "schedule/29/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Requirements to have and retain leader and cabinet executive",
  "text": "(1) LGA 2000 is amended in accordance with this paragraph.\n(2) In section 9B (permitted forms of governance for local authorities in England)—\n(a) after subsection (1) insert—\n“(1A) But—\n(a) a local authority may operate a committee system only—\n(i) if it is operating a committee system immediately before section 61 of the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026 comes into force, and\n(ii) for as long as the operation of a committee system is consistent with the provisions of section 9K; and\n(b) a new local authority must operate executive arrangements which provide for a leader and cabinet executive (England).”;\n(b) in subsection (4), after the definition of “executive arrangements” insert—\n““new local authority” means a local authority established on or after the day on which section 61 of the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026 comes into force by an order made under section 7 or 10 of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007;”.\n(3) In section 9C (local authority executives), after subsection (3) insert—\n“(3A) Subsections (1) to (3) are subject to section 9B(1A)(b) (new local authority must have a leader and cabinet executive (England)).”\n(4) After section 9KA insert—\n“Duty to retain leader and cabinet executive\n9KAA (1) A local authority which is operating a leader and cabinet executive (England) must not cease to operate—\n(a) executive arrangements, or\n(b) a leader and cabinet executive (England).\n(2) That duty applies to a local authority whenever it began to operate the leader and cabinet executive (England).”",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 29 para. 1 in force at 29.6.2026, see s. 108(5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2026/23/schedule/29/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:43:57.197615+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}