PART 4LOCAL AUTHORITY EXECUTIVES, MEMBERS, OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES

Training of members and staff of community councils

67Community 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.