Part 5Work
Chapter 1Employment, etc.
Local authority members
58Official business of members
1
A local authority must not discriminate against a member of the authority in relation to the member’s carrying out of official business—
a
in the way the authority affords the member access, or by not affording the member access, to opportunities for training or for receiving any other facility;
b
by subjecting the member to any other detriment.
2
A local authority must not, in relation to a member’s carrying out of official business, harass the member.
3
A local authority must not victimise a member of the authority in relation to the member’s carrying out of official business—
a
in the way the authority affords the member access, or by not affording the member access, to opportunities for training or for receiving any other facility;
b
by subjecting the member to any other detriment.
4
A member of a local authority is not subjected to a detriment for the purposes of subsection (1)(b) or (3)(b) only because the member is—
a
not appointed or elected to an office of the authority,
b
not appointed or elected to, or to an office of, a committee or sub-committee of the authority, or
c
not appointed or nominated in exercise of an appointment power of the authority.
5
In subsection (4)(c), an appointment power of a local authority is a power of the authority, or of a group of bodies including the authority, to make—
a
appointments to a body;
b
nominations for appointment to a body.
6
A duty to make reasonable adjustments applies to a local authority.