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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-and-elections-wales-act-2021/section-60",
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  "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/60",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "60",
  "heading": "Job-sharing: non-executive offices in principal councils",
  "text": "(1) The Welsh Ministers may by regulations make provision for the purpose of facilitating or enabling the sharing of a principal council office.\n(2) For the purposes of this section, “principal council office” means—\n(a) chair of a principal council (see section 22 of the 1972 Act);\n(b) vice-chair of a principal council (see section 24 of that Act);\n(c) presiding member of a principal council (see section 24A of that Act);\n(d) deputy presiding member of a principal council (see section 24B of that Act);\n(e) chair of a committee or sub-committee of a principal council;\n(f) vice-chair or deputy chair of a committee or sub-committee of a principal council;\n(g) deputy mayor in a mayor and cabinet executive (see Schedule 1 to the 2000 Act (executive arrangements)).\n(3) Regulations under subsection (1) may, in particular—\n(a) require principal councils to facilitate or enable the sharing of a principal council office (including by way of amending standing orders and other instruments);\n(b) make provision about the appointment, election or nomination of a person to share a principal council office;\n(c) make provision about the exercise of the functions of a principal council office which is shared;\n(d) make provision about voting and quorum where a principal council office is shared.\n(4) Regulations under subsection (1) may amend, modify, apply (with or without modifications), disapply, repeal or revoke any enactment.\n(5) A principal council must have regard to any guidance issued by the Welsh Ministers for the purposes of regulations made under subsection (1).\n(6) In subsection (2), a reference to a committee or sub-committee includes a reference to a joint committee, or a sub-committee of a joint committee.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2021/1/section/60",
    "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."
}