Local Government (Wales) Measure 2011

72 Changes in composition of executive

(1) A local authority’s appointment provision complies with this section if it provides for the case set out in subsection (2) by means of provision of the kind referred to in subsections (3) and (4).

(2) That case is where either or both of the following happen—

(a) a political group ceases to be an executive group;

(b) a political group begins to be an executive group;

and it is not the case set out in section 70.

(3) The appointment provision must provide for the making of—

(a) a section 70 determination (as if all of the local authority’s committee chairs had fallen to be appointed), and

(b) a determination of whether there is a difference between—

(i) the number of committee chairs that a political group would be entitled to appoint in accordance with the section 70 determination, and

(ii) the number of committee chairs holding office at that time who were appointed by that group.

(4) The appointment provision must provide for any difference of the kind referred to in subsection (3)(b) to be eliminated by either or both of the following—

(a) the termination of existing appointments of committee chairs;

(b) the making of new appointments of committee chairs.

(5) For the purposes of this section, a political group is to be taken to cease to be an executive group only if, after ceasing to be an executive group, the period of two months (beginning with the day on which it ceases to be an executive group) passes without it becoming an executive group again.