PART 4DISCHARGE OF FUNCTIONS
Supplementary
I117Voting rights of persons who are not members of council
1
A person who—
a
is a member of a committee appointed under section 11 or 12; but
b
is not a member of the council which appointed that committee,
must for all purposes be treated as a non-voting member of that committee.
2
A person treated by virtue of this section as a non-voting member of any committee, is not entitled to vote at any meeting of the committee on any question which falls to be decided at that meeting.
3
In this section any reference to voting includes a reference to making use of a casting vote.
4
This section applies to a joint committee and a sub-committee appointed under section 11 or 12 as it applies to a committee appointed under section 11 or 12 except that in relation to a joint committee the reference in subsection (1)(b) to the council which appointed that committee is to be taken as a reference to one of the councils which appointed that joint committee.