{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-committees-and-political-groups-regulations-1990/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-committees-and-political-groups-regulations-1990/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1553",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Committees and Political Groups) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-committees-and-political-groups-regulations-1990",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Review of allocation of seats to political groups",
  "text": "The duty under section 15 to review the representation of different political groups shall be performed at the following times which are prescribed for the purposes of section 15(1)(e)—\n(a) at, or as soon as practicable after, the first meeting of the authority after 31st May in each financial year commencing with the financial year beginning 1st April 1991, where—\n(i) the authority does not hold annual meetings in accordance with paragraph 1 of Schedule 12 to the 1972 Act (annual meetings of principal councils); and\n(ii) the members of the authority are divided into different political groups at the time of that meeting;\n(b) as soon as practicable after there is delivered to the proper officer a notice under regulation 8, where such delivery is more than one month after the last review carried out in accordance with section 15(1)(b) of the 1989 Act or, as the case may be, paragraph (a) above;\n(c) as soon as practicable after there is delivered to the proper officer a notice under paragraph (b) of regulation 9 which—\n(i) is accompanied by a further notice signed as mentioned in that paragraph and requesting a review under section 15 of the 1989 Act; and\n(ii) is received by him more than one month after the last such review;\n(d) as soon as practicable after there is delivered to the proper officer a notice under regulation 9(b) which is accompanied by such a notice as is mentioned in paragraph (c)(i) and each such notice—\n(i) is signed by a member elected to the authority pursuant to section 89 of the 1972 Act; and\n(ii) is received by the proper officer not more than one month after the date of the member’s election.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 17 in force at 1.8.1990, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph 1 of Schedule 12 to the Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70) was applied to joint authorities by Schedule 14 to the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51), and section 10(3) of the Local Government Act 1986 (c. 10)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 89 was amended by the Representation of the People Act 1983 (c. 2), Schedule 8, paragraph 13, the Representation of the People Act 1985 (c. 50), section 19(6)(c), and the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51), Schedule 17."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1553/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:11:04.151811+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."
}