Schedule 1 – Change from alternative to executive arrangements Part 7 – Communities and Community councils Section 123 – Reports about discharge of a principal council’s function of keeping electoral arrangements for communities under review
137.Introduces new subsections (4A)-(4D) in section 57 of the 1972 Act to require a principal council to publish every 15 years (and send to the Welsh Commission) a report of how it has discharged its existing function of keeping electoral arrangements for community areas under review. The existing legislation has no such timeframe for publishing reports and some councils have not published reports.