PART 2Amendments to primary legislation

The Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 20215.

(1)

Section 49 (notices etc. of local authority meetings) of the Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 is amended as follows.

(2)

The existing text becomes subsection (1).

(3)

After that subsection insert—

“(2)

Any notice or other document relating to a local authority meeting which is required under any enactment to be published electronically is, for the purposes of paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 to the Defamation Act 1996 (c. 31), to be treated as a document required by law to be open to public inspection.

(3)

In subsection (2) “local authority meeting” has the same meaning as in section 50(5).”