Schedule 3 – Payments and Pensions: Minor and consequential amendments Part 9 – Collaboration and Amalgamation Section 164 – Requirement to hold a referendum involving an elected mayor
198.Requires the Welsh Ministers, when making an amalgamation order, to require the shadow authority for the new local government area to hold a referendum on whether the new authority (when it comes into being formally) should operate the elected mayor and cabinet form of executive arrangements. The requirement to hold such a referendum will apply only where at least one of the authorities to be amalgamated is already operating with an elected mayor and cabinet executive.