§ CONSTITUTION ANDS MEMBERSHIP OF GREATER LONDON COUNCIL AND LONDON BOROUGH COUNCILS
§ Amendment made: No. 155 in page 205, line 27, leave out 'aldermen'.
§ No. 156, in page 205, line 32, leave out 'aldermen'.
§ No. 158, in page 205, line 38, leave out from 'the' to 'councillors' in line 39.
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No. 577, in page 206, line 14, at end insert—
(2) If, apart from paragraph 2(3) above or paragraph 4(2) below, the person presiding at the meeting would have ceased to be a member of the council, he shall not be entitled to vote in the election except in accordance with sub-paragraph (3) below.
§ No. 160, in page 206, leave out lines 15 and 16.
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No. 578, in page 206, line 18, leave out from 'vote' to end of line 19 and insert:
'in addition to any other vote he may have'.
§ No. 161, in page 206, line 39, leave out 'an alderman or' and insert 'a'.
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No. 902, in page 206, line 43, at end insert:
'(whether or not he continues until that time to be a councillor)'—[Mr. Graham Page.]
§ Mr. Graham PageOn a point or order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. If it would be of any assistance, all the Amendments on page No. 11161 of the Paper other than Amendment No. 882, can be moved formally.
§ Amendments made: No. 903, in page 207, line 5, at end insert:
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No. 559, in page 207, line 5, at end insert:
(4) A London borough council may pay the deputy mayor such allowance as the council think reasonable for the purpose of enabling him to meet the expenses of his office.
§ No. 162, in page 207, line 6, leave out from beginning to end of line 11 on page 208.—[Mr. Graham Page.]
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No. 163, in page 208, line 31, at beginning insert—
(1) Subject to the following provisions of this paragraph.
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No. 164, in page 208, line 36, leave out from first 'made' to end of line 37 and insert:
"under Part IV of this Act'.
§ No. 165, in page 208, line 39, at end insert:
§ (2) Until provision is made as mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(b) above by an order under Part IV of this Act, the number of councillors for each ward in a London borough shall be such as is specified in the provision of the charter for the borough or, as the case may be, of an order under Part III of Schedule 1 to the 1963 Act amending that charter, which is in force on the coming into operation of Part IV of this Act.
§ (3) So much of section (14) of the 1963 Act as limits the number of councillors of a London borough to 60 shall cease to have effect.
§ 10. This Part of this Schedule shall have effect subject to the provisions of Part II below.
§ PART II
§ Aldermen
§ 11.— (1) The offices of alderman of the Greater London Council and alderman of a London borough shall cease to exist on the relevant date, as defined in sub-paragraph (2) below, but until that date the following provisions of this Part of this Schedule shall have effect.
§ (2) In this Part of this Schedule 'the relevant date',—
- (a) in relation to the Greater London Council, means the fourth day after the ordinary day of election of councillors of the Greater London Council in 1976 or such other year as may be specified for the purposes of this sub-paragraph in an order under section 9(2) above, and
- (b) in relation to a London borough, means the fourth day after the ordinary day of election of London borough councillors in 1977 or such other year as may be so specified.
§ 12.—(1) The aldermen of the Greater London Council and of a London borough shall be elected by the Council or, as the case may be by the council of the borough, from among the councillors or persons, qualified to be councillors.
§ (2) The number of aldermen shall be one-sixth of the whole number of councillors, or if that number is not divisible by six, of the highest number below that number which is so divisible.
§ (3) If a person holding either the office of councillor or the office of alderman is elected to and accepts the other of those offices, the first office shall thereupon become vacant.
§ 13—(1) An ordinary election of aldermen shall be held in 1973 in the case of the Greater London Council, and in 1974 in the case of a London borough.
§ (2) Except in so far as aldermen are required to retire in accordance with sub-paragraph (3) below, the term of office of aldermen of the Greater London Council or of a London borough who either hold that office at the passing of this Act or are elected thereto after the passing of this Act shall expire at the relevant date.
120§ (3) In the year in which an ordinary election of aldermen of the Greater London Council or a London borough is held in accordance with sub-paragraph (1) above, one-half as near as may be of the whole number of aldermen of that Council or borough, namely those who have been aldermen for the longest time without re-election, shall retire immediately after the election of the new aldermen, who shall come into office on that day.
§ 14.—(1) The election of aldermen in accordance with paragraph 13(1) above shall be held at the annual general meeting of the Greater London Council or, as the case may be, the London borough council, and shall take place immediately after the election of the chairman or mayor.
§ (2) An alderman shall not, as such, vote at the election of an alderman.
§ (3) Every person entitled to vote may vote for any number of persons, not exceeding the number of vacancies to be filled, signing and delivering at the meeting to the person presiding at the meeting a voting paper containing the full names and places of residence and descriptions of the persons for whom he votes.
§ (4) The person presiding at the meeting shall, as soon as all the voting papers have been delivered to him, proceed to ascertain the result of the voting and state the number of votes given to each person and shall then deliver the voting papers to the proper officer of the council, to be kept for six months.
§ (5) In the case of an equality of votes, the person presiding at the meeting shall give a casting vote, whether or not he voted or was entitled to vote in the first instance.
§ (6) The person presiding at the meeting shall declare to be elected as many persons as there are vacancies to be filled, being the persons who receive the greatest numbers of votes, or if fewer persons than those vacancies receive votes, all the persons who receive votes.
§ (7) If fewer persons than those vacancies receive votes, an election to fill the remaining vacancies shall be held at the next ordinary meeting of the council, and any person elected at that election shall be treated for the purposes of paragraph 13 above as having been elected at the ordinary election of aldermen.
§ (8) The minutes of the proceedings of the meeting shall include the full names and places of residence and descriptions of the persons for whom votes were given and the names of the persons by whom they were given respectively.
§ 15.—(1) Until the relevant date. Part I above shall have effect subject to the following provisions of this paragraph.
§ (2) Paragraph 1 above shall have effect as if—
- (a) after the word 'chairman', in sub-paragraph (1), and
- (b) after the word 'mayor', in sub-paragraph (2),
§ (3) Paragraphs 2(1) and 5(1) above shall have effect as if any reference therein to a councillor included a reference to an alderman.
121§ (4) An outgoing alderman shall not, as such, vote at the election of the chairman of the Greater London Council or of the mayor of a London borough.
§ 16. The Secretary of State may by order make such amendments of provisions of this Act, other than this Schedule, which refer to aldermen as seem to him appropriate to remove those references with effect from the relevant date.—[Mr. Carlisle.]