Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021

49Notices etc. of local authority meetingsE+W

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[F1(1)]Part 1 of Schedule 4 makes amendments to the 1972 Act and other Acts, concerning notices and other documents relating to meetings of local authorities.

[F2(2)Any notice or other document relating to a local authority meeting which is required under any enactment to be published electronically is, for the purposes of paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 to the Defamation Act 1996 (c. 31), to be treated as a document required by law to be open to public inspection.

(3)In subsection (2) “local authority meeting” has the same meaning as in section 50(5).]

Textual Amendments

F1S. 49 renumbered as s. 49(1) (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 (Consequential Amendments and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/356), regs. 1(2), 5(2) (with regs. 10, 11)

Commencement Information

I1S. 49 in force at 21.1.2021 for specified purposes, see s. 175(1)(c)(7)

I2S. 49 in force at 1.5.2021 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2021/354, art. 2(b)