Paragraph 7 I1

after subsection (1) insert—

“(1A)

For the purposes of this Part other than section 1(1), a person appointed as the chief executive of a local authority which is the council of a county or county borough in Wales is to be regarded as holding a politically restricted post under that authority.”;

in subsection (7)(a) and (b), after “head of the authority's paid service” in both places it occurs, insert “ or (in the case of a council for a county or county borough in Wales) the authority's chief executive ”.