{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1972/section-24B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1972/section-24B.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1972/70",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government Act 1972",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1972",
  "path": "section/24B",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "24B",
  "heading": "Deputy presiding member",
  "text": "(1) The section applies where a principal council have determined to have a presiding member.\n(2) The principal council must appoint a member of the council to act as deputy to the presiding member (“the deputy presiding member”).\n(3) A member of the executive of a principal council , or an assistant to the executive, may not be appointed as the deputy presiding member.\n(4) A deputy presiding member is to continue in office until the occurrence of—\n(a) the deputy presiding member's resignation or disqualification,\n(b) a successor becoming entitled to act as deputy presiding member,\n(c) the council determining not to have an office of presiding member, or\n(d) an ordinary council election under section 26.\n(5) A deputy presiding member may do anything authorised or required to be done by the presiding member.",
  "extent": "W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 24A, 24B inserted (30.9.2013) by Local Government (Democracy) (Wales) Act 2013 (anaw 4), ss. 51(2), 75(2)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 24B(3) inserted (5.5.2022) by Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 (asc 1), s. 175(7), Sch. 6 para. 1(2); S.I. 2021/231, art. 6(t) (as substituted by S.I. 2021/1249, art. 3(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1972/70/section/24B",
    "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."
}