Section 3:
consolidated text (as at 2017, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
3. Subject to section 35 of the Act—
(a) the Lord Mayor, Mayor or Chairperson, as the case may be, shall preside every meeting of the Council at which he is present;
(b) where the Lord Mayor, Mayor or Chairperson is absent from a meeting
of the Council, the Deputy Lord Mayor, Deputy Mayor or Vice-Chairperson, as the case may be, shall, if present, preside;
(c) where both the Lord Mayor and Deputy Lord Mayor, Mayor and Deputy Mayor, or Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson, as the case may be,
are absent from a meeting of the Council, a Councillor, elected as
chairperson of the day by the Councillors present at the meeting,
shall preside; and
(d) any reference in this Schedule to the Lord Mayor, Mayor or Chairperson shall be interpreted as a reference to the person presiding a
meeting.