{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-wales-measure-2011/section-84",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-wales-measure-2011/section-84.json",
  "legislation": "mwa/2011/4",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government (Wales) Measure 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-wales-measure-2011",
  "path": "section/84",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "84",
  "heading": "Frequency of meetings",
  "text": "(1) A governance and audit committee must meet once in every calendar year.\n(2) The governance and audit committee of a local authority must also meet if—\n(a) the local authority resolves that the committee should meet, or\n(b) at least one-third of the members of the committee requisition a meeting by one or more notices in writing given to the person who chairs the committee.\n(2A) If two or more members of a governance and audit committee are members of the executive who share office, those members together count only as one member of the committee for the purposes of subsection (2)(b).\n(3) It is the duty of the person who chairs a governance and audit committee to secure that meetings of the committee are held as required by subsections (1) and (2).\n(4) This section does not prevent a governance and audit committee from meeting otherwise than as required by this section.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 84(1) substituted (1.4.2021) by Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 (asc 1), s. 175(7), Sch. 10 para. 6(a); S.I. 2021/297, reg. 2(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 84(2) inserted (1.4.2021) by Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 (asc 1), s. 175(7), Sch. 10 para. 6(b); S.I. 2021/297, reg. 2(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 84(2A) inserted (13.5.2022) by The Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 (Consequential Amendments) (Job-sharing and Assistants to the Executive) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/533), regs. 1(2), 2(7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 84(3) substituted (1.4.2021) by Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 (asc 1), s. 175(7), Sch. 10 para. 6(c); S.I. 2021/297, reg. 2(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 84(4) substituted (1.4.2021) by Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 (asc 1), s. 175(7), Sch. 10 para. 6(d); S.I. 2021/297, reg. 2(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 84 in force at 30.4.2012 by S.I. 2012/1187, art. 2(1)(j)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/mwa/2011/4/section/84",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:18:39.148280+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."
}