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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-alternative-arrangements-wales-regulations-2007/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-alternative-arrangements-wales-regulations-2007/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2007/397",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (Alternative Arrangements) (Wales) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-alternative-arrangements-wales-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Audit Committee",
  "text": "(1) To the extent that a local authority’s powers in respect of its audit functions under any enactment may be delegated to a committee or sub-committee, a local authority may delegate to an audit committee.\n(2) An audit committee established under regulation 5(2)(c):\n(a) must not include any members of the Board; and\n(b) must not have a chairperson who is a member of the same political group as the Chairperson of the Board (except where there is only one political group);\n(c) may appoint one or more sub-committees; and\n(d) may arrange for the discharge of any of its functions by any such sub-committee.\n(3) A sub-committee of an audit committee may not discharge any functions other than those conferred on it under paragraph (2).\n(4) An audit committee or any sub-committee of such a committee, may include persons who are not members of the authority, but any such persons are not entitled to vote at any meeting of such a committee or sub-committee on any question which falls to be decided at that meeting and are not entitled to be the chairperson of such a committee or sub-committee.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2007/397/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:01:44.800004+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."
}