{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-2003/section-116",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-2003/section-116.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/26",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-2003",
  "path": "section/116",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "116",
  "heading": "Local polls",
  "text": "(1) A local authority may conduct a poll to ascertain the views of those polled about—\n(a) any matter relating to—\n(i) services provided in pursuance of the authority’s functions, or\n(ii) the authority’s expenditure on such services.\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) It shall be for the local authority concerned to decide—\n(a) who is to be polled, and\n(b) how the poll is to be conducted.\n(3) In conducting a poll under this section, a local authority must have regard to any guidance issued by the appropriate person on facilitating participation in a poll under this section by such of those polled as are disabled people.\n(4) This section is without prejudice to any powers of a local authority exercisable otherwise than by virtue of this section.\n(5) In this section, “local authority” means—\n(a) in relation to England—\n(i) a county council;\n(ii) a district council;\n(iii) a London borough council;\n(iv) the Greater London Authority;\n(v) the Common Council of the City of London in its capacity as a local authority;\n(vi) the Council of the Isles of Scilly, and\n(b) in relation to Wales, a county council or a county borough council.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in s. 116(1)(a)(ii) substituted (W.) (1.11.2021) by Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 (asc 1), s. 175(7), Sch. 3 para. 2(a); S.I. 2021/231, art. 4(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 116(1)(b) omitted (W.) (1.11.2021) by virtue of Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 (asc 1), s. 175(7), Sch. 3 para. 2(b); S.I. 2021/231, art. 4(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 116 modified (E.) (7.4.2020) by The Local Government and Police and Crime Commissioner (Coronavirus) (Postponement of Elections and Referendums) (England and Wales) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/395), regs. 1, 11"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/26/section/116",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:18:07.059359+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."
}