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Local Government Act 2002

Consequential amendments, repeals, revocations, transitional provisions, and savings - Transitional provisions

294: Standing orders

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“Rules for how council meetings work”

When Schedule 7 of this law starts working, the rules that your local council has already made become standing orders. This includes both the bylaws and any rules they’ve made by voting on them. It’s like these rules were approved using the method described in clause 27 of Schedule 7.

If your local council already had standing orders under the Local Government Act 1974, these will keep working. They’ll stay in place until your council changes them or makes new ones using the steps in Schedule 7.

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Part 12 Consequential amendments, repeals, revocations, transitional provisions, and savings
Transitional provisions

294Standing orders

  1. Local authority bylaws, and rules made by resolution of a local authority that constitute the standing orders of a local authority when Schedule 7 comes into force, are standing orders of the local authority as if they had been adopted in the manner provided in clause 27 of Schedule 7.

  2. Standing orders established under the Local Government Act 1974 and in force immediately before the commencement of Schedule 7 continue in existence until replaced or altered in accordance with Schedule 7.