Regulation 23 Voting

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

reg. 23(1) words inserted by Local Government (Standards Committees, Investigations, Dispensations and Referral) 2016 reg. 2(14)
reg. 23(4) inserted by Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 (Job-sharing and Assistants to the Executive) 2022 reg. 3(6)
reg. 23(1) words inserted by Standards Committees 2023 reg. 11

(1)

A member of a standards committee who is not a member of the relevant authority concerned is entitled to vote at meetings of that committee.

(2)

A question to be decided by a standards committee shall be decided by a majority of the votes cast by the members present at the meeting and voting thereon.

(3)

In the case of an equality of votes, the person presiding at the meeting of the standards committee shall have a second, casting vote.