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,”.