PART 1STRENGTHENING LOCAL DEMOCRACY
CHAPTER 2LOCAL AUTHORITY DEMOCRATIC SERVICES
8Head of democratic services
(1)
A local authority must—
(a)
designate one of its officers to discharge the functions in section 9 (“democratic services functions”);
(b)
provide that officer with such staff, accommodation and other resources as are, in its opinion, sufficient to allow his or her functions to be discharged.
F1(1A)
A local authority must have regard to any guidance issued by the Welsh Ministers about the local authority's function under subsection (1)(b).
(2)
A head of democratic services may arrange for the discharge of democratic services functions by staff provided under this section.
(3)
An officer designated by a local authority under this section is to be known as the head of democratic services.
(4)
A local authority may not designate any of the following under this section—
F2(a)
the authority's chief executive appointed under section 54 of the Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021;
F3(b)
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(c)
the authority's chief finance officer, within the meaning of F4section 5 of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989.