{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-committees-and-political-groups-regulations-1990/regulation-16B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-committees-and-political-groups-regulations-1990/regulation-16B.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1553",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Committees and Political Groups) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-committees-and-political-groups-regulations-1990",
  "path": "regulation/16B",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16B",
  "heading": "Joint area committees of county and district councils",
  "text": "(1) Section 15 of the 1989 Act shall not apply to a joint committee where—\n(a) the relevant authorities appointing the joint committee are the councils of a county in England and of one or more districts in the county;\n(b) the joint committee is established exclusively to discharge functions in respect of an area comprising the whole or part of one or more such districts;\n(c) at least one member elected for each county electoral division which is wholly or partly within that area is appointed a voting member of the joint committee by the county council which is a relevant authority for the purposes of appointments to that committee;\n(d) each district council which is a relevant authority for those purposes appoints as voting members at least the same number of members of the district council as has been appointed by the county council in accordance with sub-paragraph (c); but–\n(i) no district council member may be so appointed unless he is elected for a district ward which is wholly or partly within the area in respect of which the joint committee’s functions are discharged; and\n(ii) nothing in this sub-paragraph shall require the appointment of any district council member who is not so elected;\n(e) not more than two of the voting members of the joint committee appointed by each relevant authority have been elected for electoral divisions or wards which are outside that area.\n(2) In this regulation, “joint committee” means a body described in paragraph 2(1)(h) of Schedule 1 to the 1989 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 16B added (2.9.1998) by The Local Government (Committees and Political Groups) (Amendment) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/1918), regs. 1, 4(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Regs. 16B(c)-(e) substituted for reg. 16B(c)(d) (31.3.1999) by The Local Government (Committees and Political Groups) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/500), regs. 1, 2(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1553/regulation/16B",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:11:04.151811+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."
}