9. In this Part —
“2000 Act” means the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000(1);
“member” means councillor;
“nominating officer” means—
the person registered under the 2000 Act as the party’s nominating officer; or
a member of the council nominated by that person for the purposes of Schedule 1 to the 2014 Act; and
“party” means a party registered under the 2000 Act in the Northern Ireland register (within the meaning of that Act).
10. Where a council appoints more than one committee at the same meeting in accordance with paragraph 5 of Schedule 2 to the 2014 Act, for the purposes of determining the number of places that must be allocated across the parties and independent members of that council, it must agree—
(a)the number of committees to be appointed; and
(b)the number of councillors that shall constitute the membership of each committee.
11.—(1) The total number of places to which a nominating officer of a party may nominate members who stood in the name of that party when elected must be calculated in accordance with paragraphs 2 to 4 of Schedule 2 to the 2014 Act and any resolution of the council made thereunder.
(2) A nominating officer’s function under paragraph 2(1)(b) of Schedule 2 to the 2014 Act must be exercised in such manner as to ensure that—
(a)all the members of a committee are not nominated by the same nominating officer;
(b)a nominating officer of a party may nominate members who stood in the name of that party to fill the majority of places on a committee, if the majority of members stood in the name of that party; and
(c)subject to heads (a) and (b), the number of members which each nominating officer of a party may nominate, in so far as is practicable, bears the same proportion to the number of places on that committee as is borne by the number of members on the council who stood in the name of that party.
(3) Nominations made in accordance with sub-paragraph (2) must take into account any positions of responsibility on a committee held by a member who stood in the name of a party.