Secretary to a local access forum
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11.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), an appointing authority must employ a secretary for each local access forum within their area.
(2) The appointing authorities for the area of a joint local access forum must jointly select a person to be employed as a secretary for the forum, and one of the authorities must so employ that person.
(3) The secretary shall be responsible for the administration of the local access forum.
(4) The secretary may not be—
(a)a member of the local access forum in relation to which he is employed as secretary; or
(b)a member of the appointing authority in question (or of any of the appointing authorities in question, in the case of a joint local access forum).