The Local Access Forums (England) Regulations 2002

Joint local access forums

13.—(1) Two or more appointing authorities may establish a joint local access forum for their areas or for any parts of their areas by appointing the members of the forum before 8th August 2003, and where they propose to establish such a forum, references in regulation 3(2) and (3) to a local access forum shall be construed as references to a joint local access forum.

(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply in relation to any appointing authority which has established a local access forum under regulation 3(1).

(3) Where a joint local access forum is established these Regulations shall have effect in relation to that forum with the following modifications—

(a) any reference in these Regulations to a local access forum shall, unless a contrary intention appears, have effect as if for the words “local access forum” there were substituted the words “joint local access forum”,

(b) regulation 4 (membership of a local access forum) has effect as if—

(i) in paragraph (3), for the words “appointing authority” there were substituted the words “the appointing authorities”, and for the words “the authority’s area” there were substituted the words “the authorities' areas”,

(ii) in paragraph (4), for the words “The appointing authority” there were substituted the words “The appointing authorities”, and

(iii) in paragraph (5), for the words “the appointing authority” there were substituted the words “the appointing authorities”, for the words “the authority’s area” there were substituted the words “their respective areas”, and for the words “such a website” there were substituted the words “their respective websites”,

(c) regulation 5 (terms of membership) has effect as if—

(i) in paragraph (1), for the words “the appointing authority” there were substituted the words “the appointing authorities”,

(ii) in paragraph (3), for the words “the appointing authority” there were substituted the words “one of the appointing authorities”,

(iii) in paragraph (4), for the words “An appointing authority” there were substituted the words “Appointing authorities”, and in sub-paragraph (b)(i) of that paragraph, for the words “the appointing authority” there were substituted the words “one of the appointing authorities”, and

(iv) in paragraph (5), for the words “An appointing authority” there were substituted the words “Appointing authorities”,

(d) regulation 7 (access to meetings and documents of a local access forum) has effect as if, in paragraph (3), for the words “the appointing authority” there were substituted the words “the appointing authorities”,

(e) regulation 8 (inspection of minutes and other documents after meetings of a local access forum) has effect as if, in paragraphs (1) and (2), for the words “the appointing authority” there were substituted the words “the appointing authorities”,

(f) regulation 10 (secretary to a local access forum) has effect as if—

(i) in paragraph (1), for the words “The appointing authority” there were substituted the words “One of the appointing authorities”, and

(ii) in paragraph (3), for the words “the appointing authority” there were substituted the words “any of the appointing authorities”,

(g) regulation 11 (financial provisions) has effect as if, in paragraph (1), for the words “an appointing authority” there were substituted the words “appointing authorities”, and at the end of that paragraph there were inserted the words “in such shares as may be agreed or failing agreement, equally”, and

(h) regulation 12 (annual report) has effect as if, in paragraph (2), for the words “by the local access forum’s appointing authority” there were substituted the words “jointly by the local access forum’s appointing authorities”.