The Local Authorities and Police and Crime Panels (Coronavirus) (Flexibility of Local Authority and Police and Crime Panel Meetings) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2020

Amendments to the Local Authorities and Police and Crime Panels (Coronavirus) (Flexibility of Local Authority and Police and Crime Panel Meetings) (England and Wales) Regulations 2020

2.—(1) The Local Authorities and Police and Crime Panels (Coronavirus) (Flexibility of Local Authority and Police and Crime Panel Meetings) (England and Wales) Regulations 2020(1) are amended as set out in the following paragraphs.

(2) In regulation 3 (interpretation), in the definition of “local authority”, after paragraph (q) insert—

“(r) a Mayoral development corporation established under section 198 of the Localism Act 2011(2);

(s) an urban development corporation established under section 135 of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980(3);

(t) a parish meeting constituted under section 13 of the Local Government Act 1972(4);

(u) Transport for London(5);”.

(3) In regulation 6 (frequency of local authority meetings), for paragraph (c) substitute—

“(c) paragraphs 1, 7, 10(2)(a), 14(1), (3) and (4) and 15(2) to (4) are disapplied;”.

(4) In regulation 13 (public and press access), for paragraph (a), substitute—

“(a) subsection (4)(a) is to be read as if—

(i) after “public notice of the time and place of the meeting”, there were inserted “and details of remote access by public and press to that meeting by electronic means, including by telephone conference, video conference, live webcasts, and live interactive streaming”;

(ii) after “(or, if the body has no offices, then in some central and conspicuous place in the area with which it is concerned)” there were inserted “or publishing on the website of the body or, for a parish council or for a parish meeting, on the website of the principal council within the meaning of the Local Government Act 1972”;”.

(1)

S.I. 2020/392.

(2)

2011 c. 20.

(3)

1980 c. 65. Section 135 was amended by section 179 of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 (c. 28) and by section 167 of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 (c. 22).

(4)

1972 c. 70. Section 13 was amended by section 75 of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (c. 28).

(5)

Transport for London was established by section 154 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999 (c. 29).