Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021

116 Membership of governance and audit committee

(1) Section 82 of the 2011 Measure (membership) is amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (2)—

(a) in paragraph (a) omit the words “at least”;

(b) for paragraph (b) substitute—

“(b) one-third of the members of that committee are lay persons;”.

(3) After subsection (5) insert—

“(5A) A governance and audit committee is to appoint—

(a) a member of the committee as its chair (“the committee chair”), and

(b) a member of the committee as the deputy to the committee chair (“the deputy chair”).

(5B) The member appointed as the committee chair must be a lay person.

(5C) The member appointed as the deputy chair must not be a member of the local authority’s executive or an assistant to its executive.”

(4) Omit subsection (6).

(5) In Schedule 10 to this Act (consequential amendments relating to governance and audit committees), omit paragraph 4(b)(ii)and (f).