# Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007, Section 33: Resolution for whole-council elections: requirements

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(1) A council must comply with this section in passing a resolution for whole-council elections.
(2) The council must not pass the resolution unless it has taken reasonable steps to consult such persons as it thinks appropriate on the proposed change.
(3) The resolution must be passed—
(a) at a meeting which is specially convened for the purpose of deciding the resolution with notice of the object, and
(b) by a majority of at least two thirds of the members voting on it.
(3A) The resolution must specify the year for the first ordinary elections of the council at which all councillors are to be elected.
(3B) In the case of a district council for a district in a county for which there is a county council, the year specified under subsection (3A) may not be a county-council-elections year; and here “county-council-elections year” means 2013 and every fourth year afterwards.
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(5) In subsection (3) the reference to the members of the council includes, in a case where the council are operating a mayor and cabinet executive, the elected mayor of the council.
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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/28/section/33 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-and-public-involvement-in-health-act-2007/section-33
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