{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1972/schedule-12/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1972/schedule-12/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1972/70",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government Act 1972",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1972",
  "path": "schedule/12/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) At a meeting of a principal council the chairman, if present, shall preside.\n(2) If the chairman is absent from a meeting of a principal council, then—\n(a) . . ., the vice-chairman of the council, if present, shall preside;\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) in the case of a London borough council, the deputy mayor, if at that time he remains a councillor . . . and is chosen for that purpose by the members of the council then present, shall preside.\n(3) If—\n(a) in the case of a principal council . . ., both the chairman and vice-chairman of the council are absent from a meeting of the council;\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) in the case of a London borough council, the mayor and deputy mayor are so absent or the deputy mayor being present is not chosen;\nanother member of the council chosen by the members of the council present shall preside.\n(4) A member of an executive of a principal council , or an assistant to the executive, may not be chosen to preside under sub-paragraph (3) above.\n(5) Sub-paragraphs (2)(c) and (3)(c) above do not apply where a London borough council are operating executive arrangements which involve a mayor and cabinet executive . . . . ”",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51, SIF 81:1), ss. 1, 102, Sch. 17"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 12 para. 5(2)(b) repealed by Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51, SIF 81:1), ss. 1, 102, Sch. 17"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words repealed by S.I. 1977/1710, art. 3(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words repealed by Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51, SIF 81:1), ss. 1, 102, Sch. 17"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Sch. 12 para. (3)(b) repealed by Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51, SIF 81:1), ss. 1, 102, Sch. 17"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Sch. 12 para. 5(4)(5) inserted (26.10.2000 (E.) and 28.7.2001 (W.)) by 2000 c. 22, ss. 46, 108(4), Sch. 3 para. 14(1)(2); S.I. 2000/2849, art. 2(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 12 para. 5(4) inserted (5.5.2022) by Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 (asc 1), s. 175(7), Sch. 6 para. 1(4); S.I. 2021/231, art. 6(t) (as substituted by S.I. 2021/1249, art. 3(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 12 para. 5(5) omitted (30.12.2007) by virtue of Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (c. 28), ss. 74, 245, Sch. 3 para. 12(2) and said words repealed (prosp.) by Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (c. 28), ss. 241, 245, Sch. 18 Pt. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 12 paras. 2-5 applied (with modifications)(1.5.2000 for specified purposes otherwise 3.7.2000) by 1999 c. 29, s. 328, Sch. 28 para. 10(2) (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1)); S.I. 2000/1094, arts. 3(a)(b), 4(a)(g)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "excluded",
      "affecting": "asc/2026/6",
      "affecting_title": "Planning (Wales) Act 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1972/70/schedule/12/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:48:26.887741+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."
}