Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021

118Proceedings 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).