27 Referendum in case of proposals involving elected mayor
Local Government Act 2000 (2000 c 22) | Legislation

27  Referendum in case of proposals involving elected mayor

(1)     Where a local authority's proposals under section 25 involve a form of executive for which a referendum is required, the authority—

(a)     must hold a referendum on their proposals before taking any steps to implement them, and

(b)     must draw up and send to the [Welsh Ministers] an outline of the fall-back proposals (referred to in this section as outline fall-back proposals) that they intend to implement if the proposals under section 25 are rejected in a referendum.

(2)     Fall-back proposals are proposals—

(a)     for the operation of executive arrangements which do not involve a form of executive for which a referendum is required, or

(b)

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