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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/surrey-structural-changes-order-2026/article-31",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2026/264",
  "legislation_title": "The Surrey (Structural Changes) Order 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/surrey-structural-changes-order-2026",
  "path": "article/31",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Duties of the West Surrey shadow authority: executive arrangements",
  "text": "(1) At its first meeting, the West Surrey shadow authority must create a leader and cabinet executive within the meaning of Part 1A of the 2000 Act (arrangements with respect to local authority governance in England) (“the West Surrey shadow executive”).\n(2) With the exception of Chapter 4 (changing governance arrangements) the provisions of Part 1A of the 2000 Act, to the extent that they relate to a leader and cabinet executive, have effect in relation to the West Surrey shadow authority as if—\n(a) the West Surrey shadow executive were a leader and cabinet executive of a district council;\n(b) the executive arrangements that it makes were executive arrangements of a district council;\n(c) section 9E (discharge of duties: general) authorised the West Surrey shadow executive to delegate functions not only to officers of the shadow authority but also to officers of the county council and the West Surrey councils.\n(3) Chapter 7 of Part 1 of the 2011 Act (standards) applies in relation to the West Surrey shadow authority as if—\n(a) it were a district council (but not a principal authority in relation to a parish council); and\n(b) references to co-opted members were omitted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Part 1A was inserted by the Localism Act 2011 (c. 20), section 21 and Schedule 2."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/264/article/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T15:56:43.082750+00:00",
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    "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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