6.1 Role
The Executive will carry out all the Council’s functions which are not the responsibility of any other part of the local authority, whether by law or under this Constitution.
6.2 Form and composition
The Executive will consist of the Leader together with a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 9 councillors whom he/she appoints.
6.3 Leader
The Leader will be a councillor elected by the Council at the first annual meeting following the date of ordinary elections. The Leader will hold continue to hold office unless he/she:
(a) resigns from the office or from the Council; or
(b) is disqualified from office under Section 82 of the Local Government Act 1972;
(c) he/she is suspended from being a councillor under Part III of the Local Government Act 2000 (although he/she may resume office at the end of the period of suspension); or
(d) is removed from office by resolution of the Council.
6.4 Deputy Leader
The Council may also appoint a Deputy Leader annually to that position from among the other Executive members, to hold office on the same basis as the leader in 6.3(a)-(c) above:
6.5 Executive Lead Members
Other Executive members shall be appointed annually with Executive Remits assigned by the Leader of the Council and shall hold office on the same basis as the Leader in 6.3(a)-(c) above.
6.6 Executive Support Members
The Leader of the Council may appoint other members to support Lead Members in carrying out their Executive Remits and assign to them particular elements of these Remits in which to engage. Such members may attend and speak but not vote at meetings of the Executive.
6.7 Member Champions
The Council may appoint Member Champions annually from among non-Executive Members of the Council and assign them Remits and responsibilities in which to engage.
6.8 Proceedings of the Executive
Proceedings of the Executive take place in accordance with the Executive Procedure Rules set out in Part 4 of this Constitution.
6.9 Responsibility for functions
The Leader will maintain the scheme of delegation and lists in Part 3 of this Constitution setting out which individual members of the Executive and Council, officers or joint arrangements are for the time being responsible for the exercise of particular Executive functions.
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