The Community Health Councils (Constitution, Membership and Procedures) (Wales) Regulations 2010

Composition of Councils

3.—(1) The members of a Council are appointed—

(a) by local authorities in accordance with the provisions for each relevant local authority to make appointments set out in regulation 6,

(b) by voluntary organisations in accordance with the provisions for appointments to be made on the basis of relevant local authority areas set out in regulation 7, such voluntary organisations being determined in accordance with that same regulation; and

(c) by the Welsh Ministers in accordance with the provisions for appointments to be made on the basis of relevant local authority areas set out in regulation 8;

and the total number of members appointed to each Council by the appointing bodies under this regulation is set out in Schedule 1.

(2) In addition to the members appointed in accordance with paragraph (1), a Council may from time to time co-opt such members as appear to the Council to be necessary for the performance by that Council of its functions, and such members may be appointed to sit on any committee of a new Council constituted under regulations 17, 18 or 19 or of a Council under regulations 20 or 21.

(3) Co-opted members may not vote in any meetings or proceedings of a Council or its committees.

(4) The number of co-opted members must not be taken into account for the purposes of determining the total membership of a Council under paragraph (1).