The Corporate Joint Committees (General) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2021

Monitoring officer E+W

Designation and reports of monitoring officer E+W

7.—(1) Section 5 of the 1989 Act (designation and reports of monitoring officer) is amended as follows.

(2) Before subsection (1C) insert—

“(1BB) The officer designated under subsection (1)(a) above by a relevant authority which is a corporate joint committee may not be the authority’s chief executive.”

(3) In subsection (3)(a), after “chief finance officer” insert “or, in the case of a relevant authority which is a corporate joint committee, with the person who is for the time being appointed as the authority’s chief executive and with their chief finance officer”.

(4) After subsection (5) insert—

“(5A) In the case of a relevant authority which is a corporate joint committee, regulation 13 of the Corporate Joint Committees (General) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2021 (arrangements for the discharge of functions) does not apply to the duty imposed by virtue of subsection (5)(a).”

(5) In subsection (8), in the definition of “relevant authority”, after “below” insert “, a corporate joint committee,”.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 7 in force at 3.12.2021, see reg. 1(2)

Support and advice functions of monitoring officer E+W

8.—(1) The monitoring officer designated by a corporate joint committee under section 5 of the 1989 Act must provide support and advice to—

(a) the corporate joint committee in relation to its meetings;

(b) any sub-committee of the corporate joint committee;

(c) each member of the corporate joint committee in carrying out their role;

(d) each person appointed to a sub-committee of the corporate joint committee in carrying out their role.

(2) But the reference to advice in sub-paragraphs (1)(c) and (d) does not include advice about whether or how the corporate joint committee’s functions should be, or should have been, exercised.

(3) The corporate joint committee must provide the monitoring officer with such staff, accommodation and other resources as are, in the monitoring officer’s opinion, sufficient to allow the officer’s functions under this paragraph to be discharged.

(4) The monitoring officer may arrange for the discharge of their functions under this paragraph by a member of staff of the corporate joint committee.

Commencement Information

I2 Reg. 8 in force at 3.12.2021, see reg. 1(2)