The Standards Committees (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2023

Amendments to the Standards Committees (Wales) Regulations 2001

3.  In regulation 2 —

(a) in the appropriate place insert ““corporate joint committee” (“cyd-bwyllgor corfforedig”) means a corporate joint committee established by regulations made under Part 5 of the Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021;”;

(b) in the definition of “independent member”—

(i) in sub-paragraph (b), after “officer” omit “or”;

(ii) in sub-paragraph (c), after “council” insert “, or”;

(iii) after sub paragraph (c) insert “(d) where a relevant authority is a corporate joint committee, a person who is a member, co-opted member or officer of that corporate joint committee or its constituent authorities including a constituent National Park Authority or a spouse or civil partner of that member, co-opted member or officer;”;

(c) in the definition of “lay panel member”—

(i) in sub-paragraph (a), after “council,” omit “or”;

(ii) in sub-paragraph (b), after “council” omit “;” and insert “, or”;

(iii) after sub-paragraph (b) insert—

“(c) where the relevant authority is a corporate joint committee, is

(i) a member of a constituent authority who is not a member of the executive of that authority, or

(ii) a member of a constituent National Park Authority who is not an eligible member of that corporate joint committee;”;

(d) in the definition of “relevant authority”—

(i) in sub-paragraph (c) omit “and”;

(ii) in sub-paragraph (d), after “authority” omit “;” and insert “, and”;

(iii) after sub-paragraph (d) insert “(e) a corporate joint committee;”.