PART 5

OTHER CHANGES TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Access to information

Community council websites
55
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.
S. 55 in force at 1.5.2015 by S.I. 2015/1182, art. 2(a)