{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-2000/schedule-1/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-2000/schedule-1/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2000/22",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-2000",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) An assistant to the executive of a local authority is entitled to attend, and speak at, any meeting of the executive or of a committee of the executive.\n(2) A member of a local authority who is neither a member of the authority's executive nor an assistant to the executive is entitled to attend, and speak at, a meeting of the executive, or of a committee of the executive, which is held in private only if invited to do so.",
  "extent": "W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 5(1) inserted (5.5.2022) by Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 (asc 1), ss. 57(3)(a), 175(7); S.I. 2021/231, art. 6(j)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 5 renumbered as Sch. 1 para. 5(2) (5.5.2022) by Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 (asc 1), ss. 57(3)(a), 175(7); S.I. 2021/231, art. 6(j)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 5(2) substituted (5.5.2022) by Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 (asc 1), ss. 57(3)(b), 175(7); S.I. 2021/231, art. 6(j)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 5 wholly in force at 28.7.2001; Sch. 1 para. 5 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 108; Sch. 1 para. 5 in force at 26.10.2000 in relation to England only by S.I. 2000/2849, arts. 1(3), 2(c); Sch. 1 para. 5 in force at 28.7.2001 in so far as not already in force see s. 108(4)-(6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/22/schedule/1/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:20:52.095320+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."
}