The Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 (Consequential Amendments) (Job-sharing and Assistants to the Executive) Regulations 2022

Standards Committees (Wales) Regulations 2001

3.—(1) The Standards Committee (Wales) Regulations 2001(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2, at the appropriate place in alphabetical order insert—

““assistant to the executive” (“cynorthwyydd gweithrediaeth”) has the same meaning as in paragraph 3A of Schedule 1 to the 2000 Act;”.

(3) In regulation 3, after paragraph (2) insert—

“(3) If two or more members of a standards committee are members of the executive who share office, those members together count only as one member of the committee for the purposes of paragraphs (1) and (2).”

(4) In regulation 5, after paragraph (2) insert—

“(3) If two or more members of a standards committee are members of the executive who share office, those members together count only as one member of the committee for the purposes of paragraphs (1) and (2).”

(5) In regulation 9—

(a) in paragraph (1), for “not include more that one executive member from that authority.” substitute—

“include no more than one of the following—

(a) an executive member from that authority (but see paragraph (3)), or

(b) an assistant to its executive.”;

(b) in paragraph (2), for “not include more than one executive member from each constituent local authority.” substitute—

“include no more than one of the following from each constituent local authority—

(a) an executive member (but see paragraph (3)), or

(b) an assistant to the executive.”;

(c) after paragraph (2) insert—

“(3) If two or more members of a local authority are appointed to the executive to share office—

(a) a standards committee may include more than one of those members, and if it does so, together they count as one executive member for the purposes of paragraph (1)(a);

(b) a joint committee may include more than one of those members from a constituent local authority, and if it does so, those members together count as one executive member for the purposes of paragraph (2)(a).”

(6) In regulation 23, after paragraph (3) insert—

“(4) If two or more members of a standards committee are members of the executive who share office, those members have between them one vote for the purposes of paragraph (2).”

(7) In regulation 24, after paragraph (3) insert—

“(4) If two or more members of a standards committee are members of the executive who share office, those members together count only as one member of the committee for the purposes of paragraphs (1) and (2).”

(1)

S.I. 2001/2283 (W. 172); relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2006/1849 (W. 192), 2016/85 (W. 39).