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

PART 3 PROMOTING ACCESS TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

CHAPTER 4 LOCAL GOVERNMENT MEETINGS

50 Regulations about conduct of local authority meetings, documents relating to meetings and publication of information

(1) The Welsh Ministers may by regulations make provision for and in connection with requirements concerning notices and other documents relating to local authority meetings and concerning the conduct of such meetings.

(2) Regulations under subsection (1) may, in particular, include provision about—

(a) the production of notices and other documents relating to local authority meetings;

(b) the publication and dissemination of such notices and documents;

(c) the content of such notices and documents;

(d) rights of access to such notices and documents;

(e) the keeping of documents relating to local authority meetings;

(f) arrangements relating to the holding of local authority meetings;

(g) the recording of decisions made at such meetings.

(3) The Welsh Ministers may also by regulations make provision for and in connection with the publication by local authorities of, and rights of access to, information setting out details about—

(a) members of the authority and its committees and sub-committees;

(b) rights to attend local authority meetings and to access documents;

(c) the exercise of powers of a local authority by its officers.

(4) Regulations under this section may amend, modify, repeal or revoke any enactment.

(5) In this section—

• “local authority” (“awdurdod lleol”) means—

  (a)

  a principal council;

  (b)

  a community council;

  (c)

  a fire and rescue authority for an area in Wales;

  (d)

  a National Park authority for a National Park in Wales;

  (e)

  a joint board which—

  (i)

  is constituted under any enactment as a body corporate, and

  (ii)

  discharges functions of two or more principal councils;

  (f)

  a port health authority for a port health district in Wales constituted under section 2 of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 (c. 22);

• “local authority meeting” (“cyfarfod awdurdod lleol”) means a meeting of—

  (a)

  a local authority;

  (b)

  where the local authority is a principal council, its executive;

  (c)

  a joint committee of two or more local authorities;

  (d)

  a committee or sub-committee of anything within paragraphs (a) to (c).