PART 5OTHER CHANGES TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Access to information

I155Community council websites

1

A community council must make available electronically—

a

information on how to contact it and, if different, its clerk including—

i

a telephone number;

ii

a postal address;

iii

an email address;

b

information about each of its members, including—

i

the member's name;

ii

how the member may be contacted;

iii

the member's party affiliation (if any);

iv

the ward which the member represents (where relevant);

v

any office of the council held by the member;

vi

any committee of the council to which the member belongs;

c

the minutes of the proceedings of the council's meetings and (in so far as is reasonably practicable) any documents which are referred to in the minutes;

d

any audited statement of the council's accounts.

2

Nothing in this section authorises or requires a community council to make available any information that it is prevented from disclosing under any enactment.

3

In carrying out its duties under subsection (1), a community council must have regard to any guidance issued by the Welsh Ministers.

4

The requirement to make available the information listed in subsection (1)(c) and (d) relates only to information produced on or after the coming into force of this section.