The Parish and Community Councils (Committees)Regulations 1990

Made6th December 1990

Laid before Parliament10th December 1990

Coming into force1st January 1991

The Secretary of State for the Environment, as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 13(3)(b) and (4)(g) and (h) and 190(1) of the Local Government and Housing Act 19891, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Parish and Community Councils (Committees) Regulations 1990 and shall come into force on 1st January 1991.

2

In these Regulations—

“the 1972 Act” means the Local Government Act 19722;
“the 1989 Act” means the Local Government and Housing Act 1989;
“financial year” means a period of twelve months ending on 31st March.

3

1

The following functions when performed by a committee of a parish or community council are prescribed for the purposes of section 13(4)(g) of the 1989 Act—

a

the management of land owned or occupied by the council;

b

where the council are a harbour authority as defined in section 57(1) of the Harbours Act 19643, their functions as such;

c

any function under section 144 of the 1972 Act4 relating to the promotion of tourism;

d

any function under section 145 of the 1972 Act relating to the management of a festival.

2

For the purposes of paragraph (1)(a) and (d), “management” does not include the determination of the total amount of money which may be expended in any financial year by the council in respect of the land or festival.

4

A sub-committee of a parish or community council appointed exclusively to discharge any of the functions mentioned in regulation 3(1) is prescribed for the purposes of section 13(4)(h) of the 1989 Act; and the case of a member of such a sub-committee is prescribed for the purposes of section 13(3)(b) of that Act.

Michael HeseltineSecretary of State for the Environment6thDecember 1990

David HuntSecretary of State for Wales6thDecember 1990

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Section 13(1) of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 prevents members of local authority committees and sub-committees having voting rights if they are not members of the parent authority. These Regulations provide for exceptions to that rule in relation to parish and community councils. The rule is not to apply to a committee established exclusively to discharge one of the functions described (regulation 3). Neither does it apply to members of a sub-committee established exclusively to discharge such a function, and in addition a member of such a sub-committee may have a vote without being a member of the committee which appointed the sub-committee (regulation 4).