PART 4

LOCAL AUTHORITY EXECUTIVES, MEMBERS, OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES

Entitlement of members to job-share and to family absence

Job-sharing: non-executive offices in principal councils
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1
The Welsh Ministers may by regulations make provision for the purpose of facilitating or enabling the sharing of a principal council office.
2
For the purposes of this section, “principal council office” means—
a
chair of a principal council (see section 22 of the 1972 Act);
b
vice-chair of a principal council (see section 24 of that Act);
c
presiding member of a principal council (see section 24A of that Act);
d
deputy presiding member of a principal council (see section 24B of that Act);
e
chair of a committee or sub-committee of a principal council;
f
vice-chair or deputy chair of a committee or sub-committee of a principal council;
g
deputy mayor in a mayor and cabinet executive (see Schedule 1 to the 2000 Act (executive arrangements)).
3
Regulations under subsection (1) may, in particular—
a
require principal councils to facilitate or enable the sharing of a principal council office (including by way of amending standing orders and other instruments);
b
make provision about the appointment, election or nomination of a person to share a principal council office;
c
make provision about the exercise of the functions of a principal council office which is shared;
d
make provision about voting and quorum where a principal council office is shared.
4
Regulations under subsection (1) may amend, modify, apply (with or without modifications), disapply, repeal or revoke any enactment.
5
A principal council must have regard to any guidance issued by the Welsh Ministers for the purposes of regulations made under subsection (1).
6
In subsection (2), a reference to a committee or sub-committee includes a reference to a joint committee, or a sub-committee of a joint committee.