The Local Authorities (Referendums) (Petitions and Directions) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2003
Under Part II of the Local Government Act 2000 (“the Act”), every county and county borough council in Wales (“authority”) is able to make arrangements for the discharge of its functions by executives which must take one of the forms specified in sections 11(2) to (4) of the Act or in regulations under section 11(5). In addition to a form of executive prescribed in regulations under section 11(5) of the Act which is expressed in those regulations to be a form of executive for which a referendum is required, the forms of executive specified in sections 11(2) and 11(4) are forms of executive for which a referendum is required.