Regulation 30 InterpretationI1

In this Part—

• “CJC meeting” (“cyfarfod CBC”) means a meeting of a corporate joint committee (but see regulation 22);

• “copy” (“copi”), in relation to any document, includes a copy made from a copy;

• “exempt information” (“gwybodaeth esempt”) has the meaning given by regulation 26;

• “information” (“gwybodaeth”) includes an expression of opinion, any recommendations and any decision taken;

• “news media organisation” (“sefydliad cyfryngau newyddion”) means—

  1. (a)

     a newspaper;

  2. (b)

     any organisation which is systematically engaged in reporting news by means of—

     1. (i)

        sound or television broadcasts, or

     2. (ii)

        electronic publication;

  3. (c)

     a news agency which systematically carries on the business of selling and supplying reports or information to newspapers or other news media organisations;

  4. (d)

     any organisation which is systematically engaged in collecting news—

     1. (i)

        for sound or television broadcasts;

     2. (ii)

        for inclusion in programmes to be included in any programme service (within the meaning of the Broadcasting Act 1990) other than a sound or television broadcasting service;

     3. (iii)

        for electronic publication;

• “principal council” (“prif gyngor”) has the meaning given in section 171(1) of the 2021 Act;

References in any provision of this Part to a “proper officer” are references to a member of staff of a corporate joint committee authorised to carry out the function of the proper officer specified in the provision in question.

References in any provision of this Part to a meeting of a corporate joint committee held through “remote means” are to a meeting held by means of any equipment or other facility which enables persons who are not in the same place to speak to and be heard by each other (whether or not the equipment or facility enables those persons to see and be seen by each other).