{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-changing-executive-arrangements-and-alternative-arrangements-england-regulations-2001/regulation-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/1003",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (Changing Executive Arrangements and Alternative Arrangements) (England) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-changing-executive-arrangements-and-alternative-arrangements-england-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Requirement to hold a referendum",
  "text": "(1) Where a local authority draws up proposals under—\n(a) regulation 2(1) which involve an executive which takes a different form and—\n(i) the form of executive under the existing executive arrangements; or\n(ii) the proposed form of executive,\nis a form of executive for which a referendum is required;\n(b) regulation 2(2) and the form of executive under the existing executive arrangements is a form of executive for which a referendum is required; or\n(c) regulation 2(4) and the proposed form of executive is a form of executive for which a referendum is required,\nthe authority must hold a referendum on its proposals before taking any steps to implement them.\n(2) Where the local authority is required to hold a referendum by virtue of paragraph (1), the local authority must also draw up an outline of proposals (“outline fall-back proposals”) which must consist of a summary of the local authority’s existing executive arrangements or its existing alternative arrangements, as the case may be.\n(3) A local authority may not hold such a referendum before the end of the period of two months beginning with the date on which a copy of the proposals, statement and outline fall-back proposals are sent to the Secretary of State in accordance with regulation 7.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 26(2) of the 2000 Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1003/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:54:37.034935+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."
}