Regulation 16AA Area committees and sub-committees in WalesF1

(1)

Section 15 of the 1989 Act does not apply to any ordinary committee or advisory committee of an authority in Wales which is a county council or a county borough council, or to a sub-committee of any such ordinary or advisory committee, where—

(a)

the committee or sub-committee was established exclusively—

(i)

to discharge functions of the authority, or

(ii)

to advise the authority or any committee of the authority,

in respect of part of the area of the authority;

(b)

that part consists of the whole of one or more electoral divisions of the authority;

(c)

all the members of the authority who are elected for that electoral division, or those electoral divisions, are entitled to be members of the committee or sub-committee;

(d)

no members of the authority, other than those mentioned in subparagraph (c), may be members of the committee or sub-committee; and

(e)

either or both of the conditions in paragraph (2) are satisfied in relation to that part.

(2)

Those conditions are—

(a)

that the area of that part does not exceed one-half of the total area of the authority;

(b)

that the population of that part, as estimated by the authority, does not exceed one-half of the total population of the area of the authority as so estimated.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Reg. 16AA inserted (W.) (1.5.2014) by The Local Government (Committees and Political Groups) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/476), regs. 1(1), 2(4)