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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-local-authorities-alternative-arrangements-england-regulations-2001/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-local-authorities-alternative-arrangements-england-regulations-2001/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2001/0110290976",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (Alternative Arrangements) (England) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-local-authorities-alternative-arrangements-england-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Local authority committees and sub-committees",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (3), where a local authority appoints a committee under section 102(1)(a) of the 1972 Act for the purpose of discharging any function in pursuance of arrangements made under section 101 of the 1972 Act, the number of members of that committee, who are members of the local authority, shall not exceed fifteen.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), where a committee, appointed under section 102(1)(a) of the 1972 Act, appoints a sub-committee for the purpose of discharging any function in pursuance of arrangements made under section 101 of the 1972 Act, the number of members of that sub-committee, who are members of the local authority, shall not exceed ten.\n(3) Paragraphs (1) and (2) shall not apply—\n(a) to a committee or sub-committee of a local authority to which regulation 16A of the Local Government (Committees and Political Groups) Regulations 1990 (area committees and sub-committees) as amended from time to time applies; or\n(b) to a committee or sub-committee of a local authority, which only discharges one or more of those functions mentioned under headings A, B, C, H or I in Schedule 1 to the Local Authorities (Functions and Responsibilities) (England) Regulations 2000 as amended from time to time.\n(4) Any reference in paragraph (3)(b) to the discharge of any functions includes a reference to the doing of anything which is calculated to facilitate, or is conducive or incidental to, the discharge of those functions.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1990/1553. This regulation was inserted by the Local Government (Committees and Political Groups) (Amendment) Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1998 No. 1398). Sub-paragraphs 16A(1)(b) and (2) were substituted and added by the Local Government (Committees and Political Groups) (Amendment) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998 No. 1918), regulation 4."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2000/2853."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "See section 111 of the Local Government Act 1972 (Subsidiary powers of local authorities)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2001/0110290976/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:26:52.090510+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}