# The London Authorities (Meetings, etc.) Order 1964, Article 6


(1) A London borough council shall at their first meeting elect a chairman from among the councillors of the borough or persons qualified to be councillors of the borough.
(2) The election of the chairman shall be the first business transacted at the first meeting of the council. No person shall vote in the first instance unless he is a councillor of the borough, but the person presiding at the election shall, in the event of an equality of votes, give a casting vote whether or not he voted, or was entitled to vote, in the first instance.
(3) If the person elected as chairman is absent from the first meeting such councillor as the councillors present shall choose shall thereafter preside.
(4) The chairman shall, unless he resigns or becomes disqualified, hold office until the first mayor of the borough becomes entitled to act as mayor.
(5) The council may pay to the chairman such remuneration as they think reasonable.
(6) The chairman may appoint an alderman or councillor of the borough to be deputy chairman. The deputy chairman shall, unless he resigns or becomes disqualified, hold office until the first mayor of the borough becomes entitled to act as mayor.
(7) The appointment of a deputy chairman shall be signified to the council in writing and be recorded in the minutes of the council.
(8) The deputy chairman may, if for any reason the chairman is unable to act, or the office of chairman is vacant, discharge all functions which the chairman as such might discharge, except that he shall not take the chair at a meeting of the council unless specially appointed by the meeting to do so.
(9) Subject to the other provisions of this article, until the first mayor of the borough becomes entitled to act as mayor any reference in any enactment, other than section 18(5) of the Local Government Act 1933, in any instrument made under any enactment or in any standing orders to a mayor or deputy mayor shall include a reference to the chairman or the deputy chairman, as the case may be, of a London borough council.
(10) In relation to the chairman and deputy chairman, any provision as to sections 18 and 20 of the Local Government Act 1933 made by an Act of Parliament passed after the London Government Act 1963 shall be disregarded.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1964/529/article/6 (the official version)
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