{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-and-elections-wales-act-2021/section-53",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-and-elections-wales-act-2021/section-53.json",
  "legislation": "asc/2021/1",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-and-elections-wales-act-2021",
  "path": "section/53",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "53",
  "heading": "Overview",
  "text": "This Part makes provision—\n(a) requiring a principal council to appoint a chief executive (rather than designate a head of paid service), whose functions will include duties imposed under this Part;\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) for the appointment of assistants to executives of principal councils;\n(d) about job-sharing of certain offices in principal councils;\n(e) for issuing guidance, including to elected mayors and executive leaders, on equality and diversity;\n(f) about the entitlement of members of local authorities to various kinds of family absence;\n(g) requiring leaders of political groups to take steps to promote and maintain high standards of conduct by members of their groups, and to co-operate with standards committees;\n(h) requiring standards committees to produce annual reports on the exercise of their functions;\n(i) amending the 2000 Act and other Acts to make provision about investigations by the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales into the conduct of members of local government;\n(j) about the provision of certain information to overview and scrutiny committees;\n(k) enabling the Welsh Ministers to require local authorities to appoint joint overview and scrutiny committees;\n(l) requiring community councils to make training plans.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 53(b) omitted (1.4.2025) by virtue of Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Act 2024 (asc 5), s. 72(4), Sch. 1 para. 15(2); S.I. 2024/1337, art. 3(e)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2021/1/section/53",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:57.648401+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."
}