Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 (asc1)

PART 6 E+W PERFORMANCE AND GOVERNANCE OF PRINCIPAL COUNCILS [F1 AND CORPORATE JOINT COMMITTEES]

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Pt. 6 title inserted (15.7.2022) by The Corporate Joint Committees (General) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/797), regs. 1(2), 6(1)

CHAPTER 2 E+W GOVERNANCE AND AUDIT COMMITTEES: MEMBERSHIP AND PROCEEDINGS

118 Proceedings etc. E+W

(1) Section 83 of the 2011 Measure (proceedings) is amended as follows.

(2) For subsections (1) and (2) substitute—

“(1) A meeting of a governance and audit committee is to be chaired—

(a) by the committee chair, or

(b) if the committee chair is absent, by the deputy chair.

(2) If both the committee chair and the deputy chair are absent the committee may appoint a member of the committee who is not a member of the local authority's executive, or an assistant to its executive, to chair the meeting.”

(3) Omit subsection (8).

(4) In Schedule 6 to this Act (assistants to executives), omit paragraph 6(5).

(5) In Schedule 10 to this Act (consequential amendments relating to governance and audit committees), omit paragraph 5(a) and (b).

Commencement Information

I1 S. 118 in force at 5.5.2022 by S.I. 2021/297, art. 3(b)