{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-2000/section-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-2000/section-26.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2000/22",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-2000",
  "path": "section/26",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Proposals not requiring referendum.",
  "text": "(1) Where a local authority’s proposals under section 25 do not involve a form of executive for which a referendum is required, the authority must implement the proposals in accordance with the timetable included in the proposals.\n(2) Any reference in this Part to a form of executive for which a referendum is required is a reference to—\n(a) a mayor and cabinet executive, or\n(b) a mayor and council manager executive, or\n(c) a form of executive prescribed in regulations under section 11(5) which is expressed in those regulations to be a form of executive for which a referendum is required.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in s. 26(2)(a) inserted (10.7.2011) by Local Government (Wales) Measure 2011 (nawm 4), ss. 34(4)(a), 178(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 26(2)(b) repealed (10.7.2011) by Local Government (Wales) Measure 2011 (nawm 4), ss. 34(4)(b), 178(2), Sch. 4 Pt. B"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 26 wholly in force at 28.7.2001; s. 26 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 108; s. 26 in force at 26.10.2000 in relation to England only by S.I. 2000/2849, arts. 1(3), 2(a); s. 26 in force at 28.7.2001 in so far as not already in force see s. 108(4)-(6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/22/section/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:20:52.095320+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."
}