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(1)The following persons are to be regarded for the purposes of this Part as holding politically restricted posts under a local authority—
(a)the person designated under section 4 below as the head of the authority’s paid service;
(b)the statutory chief officers;
(c)a non-statutory chief officer;
(d)a deputy chief officer;
(e)the monitoring officer designated under section 5 below;
(f)any person holding a post to which he was appointed in pursuance of section 9 below; and
(g)any person not falling within paragraphs (a) to (f) above whose post is for the time being specified by the authority in a list maintained in accordance with subsection (2) below and any directions under section 3 below or with section 100G(2) of the M1Local Government Act 1972 or section 50G(2) of the M2Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (list of officers to whom powers are delegated).
(2)It shall be the duty of every local authority to prepare and maintain a list of such of the following posts under the authority, namely—
(a)the full time posts the annual rate of remuneration in respect of which is or exceeds £19,500 or such higher amount as may be specified in or determined under regulations made by the Secretary of State;
(b)the part time posts the annual rate of remuneration in respect of which would be or exceed that amount if they were full time posts in respect of which remuneration were paid at the same rate as for the part time post; and
(c)posts not falling within paragraph (a) or (b) above the duties of which appear to the authority to fall within subsection (3) below,
as are not posts for the time being exempted under section 3 below, posts for the time being listed under section 100G(2) of the M3Local Government Act 1972 or section 50G(2) of the M4Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 or posts of a description specified in regulations made by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this subsection.
(3)The duties of a post under a local authority fall within this subsection if they consist in or involve one or both of the following, that is to say—
(a)giving advice on a regular basis to the authority themselves, to any committee or sub-committee of the authority or to any joint committee on which the authority are represented[F1 or, where the authority are operating executive arrangements, to the executive of the authority, to any committee of that executive, or to any member of that executive who is also a member of the authority];
(b)speaking on behalf of the authority on a regular basis to journalists or broadcasters.
(4)It shall be the duty of every local authority to deposit the first list prepared under subsection (2) above with their proper officer before the expiry of the period of two months beginning with the coming into force of this section; and it shall also be their duty, on subsequently making any modifications of that list, to deposit a revised list with that officer.
(5)It shall be the duty of every local authority in performing their duties under this section to have regard to such general advice as may be given by virtue of subsection (1)(b) of section 3 below by a person appointed under that subsection.
(6)In this section “the statutory chief officers” means—
(a)the chief education officer [F2or director of education] appointed under [F3section 532 of the Education Act 1996][F2or section 78 of the M5Education (Scotland) Act 1980];
(b)the chief officer of a fire brigade maintained under the M6Fire Services Act 1947 and appointed under regulations made under section 18(1)(a) of that Act;
(c)the director of social services or [F4chief social work officer] appointed under section 6 of the M7Local Authority Social Services Act 1970 or section 3 of the M8Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968; and
(d)the officer having responsibility, for the purposes of section 151 of the Local Government Act 1972, section 73 of the M9Local Government Act 1985, section 112 of the M10Local Government Finance Act 1988 [F5, section 127(2) of the Greater London Authority Act 1999] or section 6 below or for the purposes of section 95 of the M11Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, for the administration of the authority’s financial affairs.
(7)In this section “non-statutory chief officer” means, subject to the following provisions of this section—
(a)a person for whom the head of the authority’s paid service is directly responsible;
(b)a person who, as respects all or most of the duties of his post, is required to report directly or is directly accountable to the head of the authority’s paid service; and
(c)any person who, as respects all or most of the duties of his post, is required to report directly or is directly accountable to the local authority themselves or any committee or sub-committee of the authority.
(8)In this section “deputy chief officer” means, subject to the following provisions of this section, a person who, as respects all or most of the duties of his post, is required to report directly or is directly accountable to one or more of the statutory or non-statutory chief officers.
(9)A person whose duties are solely secretarial or clerical or are otherwise in the nature of support services shall not be regarded as a non-statutory chief officer or a deputy chief officer for the purposes of this Part.
(10)Nothing in this section shall have the effect of requiring any person to be regarded as holding a politically restricted post by reason of his holding—
(a)the post of head teacher or principal of a school, college or other educational institution or establishment which, in England and Wales, is maintained or assisted by a local education authority or, in Scotland, is under the management of or is assisted by an education authority; or
(b)any other post as a teacher or lecturer in any such school, college, institution or establishment,
or of requiring any such post to be included in any list prepared and maintained under this section.
(11)Regulations under this section may contain such incidental provision and such supplemental, consequential and transitional provision in connection with their other provisions as the Secretary of State considers appropriate.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 2(3)(a) inserted (E.) (11.7.2001) and (W.) (1.4.2002) by S.I. 2001/2237, arts. 1(2), 22; S.I. 2002/808, arts. 1(2), 21
F2Words in s. 2(6)(a) repealed (S.) (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 39, s. 180(1)(2), Sch. 13 para. 161(1)(2)(a), Sch. 14 (with s. 128(8)); S.I. 1996/323, art. 4(1)(c)(d), Sch. 2
F3Words in s. 2(6)(a) substituted (1.11.1996) by 1996 c. 56, ss. 582(1), 583(2), Sch. 37 para. 95 (with s. 1(4), Sch. 39 paras. 30, 39)
F4Words in s. 2(6)(c) substituted (S.) (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 39, s. 180(1), Sch. 13 para. 161(1)(2)(b) (with s. 128(8)); S.I. 1996/323, art. 4(1)(c)
F5Words in s. 2(6)(d) inserted (8.5.2000 for specified purposes otherwise 3.7.2000) by 1999 c. 29, s. 127(8) (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1)); S.I. 1999/3434, arts. 3, 4
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 2 extended (E.W.) (19.9.1995) by 1995 c. 25, ss. 63(5), 125(2), Sch. 7 para. 7(4) (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117, Sch. 8 para. 7)
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