26SIn Schedule 7 (which relates to meetings and proceedings of local authorities)—
(a)for sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 3 there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraphs—
“(2)If the chairman is absent from a meeting of the council, the vice-chairman shall preside.
(3)If the chairman and vice-chairman are absent from a meeting of the council, another member of the council chosen by the members present shall preside.” ; and
(b)in paragraph 10—
(i)for sub-paragraph (1) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—
“(1)Paragraphs 5 to 9 above (except paragraph 7(2)) shall apply in relation to—
(a)a committee (including a joint committee) of a council and that committee’s members ; or
(b)a sub-committee of any such committee of a council and that sub-committee’s members,
as those paragraphs apply in relation to a council and that council’s members.” ; and
(ii)in sub-paragraph (2), after the word “members” there shall be inserted the words “recorded under paragraph 6 above as having been ”.