PART 6

PERFORMANCE AND GOVERNANCE OF PRINCIPAL COUNCILS
CHAPTER 2

GOVERNANCE AND AUDIT COMMITTEES: MEMBERSHIP AND PROCEEDINGS

Proceedings etc.
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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).