Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021

Training of members and staff of community councils

67 Community council training plans

(1) A community council must make and publish a plan (a “training plan”) setting out its proposals in relation to the provision of training for—

(a) the councillors of the community council, and

(b) the community council’s staff.

(2) A community council must make its first training plan no later than six months after the date on which subsection (1) comes into force.

(3) A community council must make a new training plan no later than three months after each ordinary election of community councillors to the council.

(4) A community council must review its training plan from time to time.

(5) If a community council revises or replaces its training plan, it must publish the revised or new plan.

(6) Section 101 of the 1972 Act (arrangements for discharge of functions by local authorities) does not apply to a community council’s functions of—

(a) determining the content of a training plan or any revised plan, and

(b) reviewing the training plan.

(7) A community council must have regard to any guidance issued by the Welsh Ministers about the exercise of functions under this section.