PART 6

PERFORMANCE AND GOVERNANCE OF PRINCIPAL COUNCILS
CHAPTER 2

GOVERNANCE AND AUDIT COMMITTEES: MEMBERSHIP AND PROCEEDINGS

Membership of governance and audit committee
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1
Section 82 of the 2011 Measure (membership) is amended as follows.
2
In subsection (2)—
a
in paragraph (a) omit the words “at least”;
b
for paragraph (b) substitute—
b
one-third of the members of that committee are lay persons;
.
3
After subsection (5) insert—
5A
A governance and audit committee is to appoint—
a
a member of the committee as its chair (“the committee chair”), and
b
a member of the committee as the deputy to the committee chair (“the deputy chair”).
5B
The member appointed as the committee chair must be a lay person.
5C
The member appointed as the deputy chair must not be a member of the local authority’s executive or an assistant to its executive.
4
Omit subsection (6).
5
In Schedule 10 to this Act (consequential amendments relating to governance and audit committees), omit paragraph 4(b)(ii)and (f).