The Local Authorities (Executive Arrangements) (Discharge of Functions) (Wales) Regulations 2002

Members of joint committees

12.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3) below, every person appointed to a joint committee in accordance with regulation 11 above by an executive, a member of an executive or a committee of an executive must be a member of that executive, and the political balance requirements shall not apply to the appointment of such members.

(2) Where the executive concerned is a mayor and council manager executive—

(a) the elected mayor must not be a member of the joint committee; and

(b) the council manager may either be a member of the joint committee or arrange for another officer of the local authority to be a member of the joint committee, and such a member shall be a voting member of that committee.

(3) Where—

(a) the joint committee has functions in respect of part only of the area of one of the local authorities concerned;

(b) those functions are the responsibility of the executive of that authority; and

(c) either—

(i) the area of that part does not exceed two-fifths of the total area of the authority; or

(ii) the population of that part, as estimated by the authority, does not exceed two-fifths of the total population of the authority as so estimated,

the representatives of that authority on the joint committee may include any members of that authority who have been elected for electoral divisions or wards which are wholly or partly within that part of the authority’s area, and the political balance requirements shall not apply to the appointment of those members.

(4) Where the joint committee has functions in respect of part of the area of one of the local authorities concerned and the representatives of that authority on that committee are appointed by the authority, the political balance requirements shall not apply to the appointment of those representatives and those representatives must be members of that local authority who have been elected for electoral divisions or wards which are wholly or partly within that part of the authority’s area.