In section 100K of the 1972 Act (interpretation and application of Part 5A), after subsection (1) insert—

“(1A)

In this Part references to a meeting of a principal council in Wales held through remote means are to a meeting held by means of any equipment or other facility which enables persons who are not in the same place to speak to and be heard by each other (whether or not the equipment or facility enables those persons to see and be seen by each other).”