Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021

60 Job-sharing: non-executive offices in principal councils E+W

(1) The Welsh Ministers may by regulations make provision for the purpose of facilitating or enabling the sharing of a principal council office.

(2) For the purposes of this section, “principal council office” means—

(a) chair of a principal council (see section 22 of the 1972 Act);

(b) vice-chair of a principal council (see section 24 of that Act);

(c) presiding member of a principal council (see section 24A of that Act);

(d) deputy presiding member of a principal council (see section 24B of that Act);

(e) chair of a committee or sub-committee of a principal council;

(f) vice-chair or deputy chair of a committee or sub-committee of a principal council;

(g) deputy mayor in a mayor and cabinet executive (see Schedule 1 to the 2000 Act (executive arrangements)).

(3) Regulations under subsection (1) may, in particular—

(a) require principal councils to facilitate or enable the sharing of a principal council office (including by way of amending standing orders and other instruments);

(b) make provision about the appointment, election or nomination of a person to share a principal council office;

(c) make provision about the exercise of the functions of a principal council office which is shared;

(d) make provision about voting and quorum where a principal council office is shared.

(4) Regulations under subsection (1) may amend, modify, apply (with or without modifications), disapply, repeal or revoke any enactment.

(5) A principal council must have regard to any guidance issued by the Welsh Ministers for the purposes of regulations made under subsection (1).

(6) In subsection (2), a reference to a committee or sub-committee includes a reference to a joint committee, or a sub-committee of a joint committee.