Statutory Instruments
Local Government, Wales
Made
27th March 2008
Laid before Parliament
8th April 2008
Coming into force
30th April 2008
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 183(6) and (11) and section 240(10) of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007(1), makes the following Order:
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Relevant Authorities (Code of Conduct) (Prescribed Period for Undertakings) (Wales) Order 2008 and shall come into force on 30th April 2008.
(2) This Order applies in relation to persons who, immediately before the coming into force of section 183 of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 are—
(a)members or co-opted members of a relevant authority in Wales other than a police authority, and
(b)not prevented by any provision of section 52 of the Local Government Act 2000(2) from acting as such(3).
2. The period prescribed for the purposes of section 183(6) of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (at the end of which the person will cease to be a member or co-opted member unless he has given a written undertaking that he will observe the authority’s code of conduct for the time being), is the period ending on 1st May 2008(4).
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
John Healey
Minister of State
Department for Communities and Local Government
27th March 2008
(This note is not part of the Order)
So far as is relevant to this Order, section 183 of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 provides that a person who, immediately before the coming into force of that section, is a member or co-opted member of a relevant authority in Wales (other than a police authority) will cease to be a member or co-opted member of the authority unless before the end of “the prescribed period”, he has given the authority a written undertaking to observe the authority’s code of conduct.
Section 183(11) defines “the prescribed period” as beginning with the date on which section 183 comes into force, which in Wales was 31st January 2008. This Order specifies 1st May 2008 as the end of that period.
2000 c.22. Section 52 is amended by section 183(4) of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 20007. As to “relevant authority” see section 183(9) and section 49 of the Local Government Act 2000.
See section 183(5) of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007.
The period begins with the date on which section 183 comes into force; see the definition of “the prescribed period” in section 183(11).