7.—(1) Where a joint transport committee is established in accordance with article 6 the members of the joint transport committee must be appointed in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (5).
(2) The members appointed by the GMCA must be members or substitute members of that authority or members of the constituent councils.
(3) The members appointed by the constituent councils must be members of those councils.
(4) The members appointed by the Mayor must be members of the GMCA or of the constituent councils.
(5) In appointing members to the joint transport committee—
(a)the Mayor, the GMCA and the constituent councils must ensure that—
(i)the number of members of the committee does not exceed twenty three;
(ii)members are appointed to act as members of the joint transport committee in the absence of the members appointed under paragraph (1) (“substitute committee members”); and
(b)the GMCA and the constituent councils must ensure that the members of the committee appointed from among the members of the GMCA and the constituent councils, and any substitute committee members acting in place of those members, taken as a whole reflect so far as reasonably practicable the balance of political parties for the time being prevailing among members of the constituent councils.
(6) Questions relating to the apportionment of membership under paragraph (5)(b) require a unanimous vote in favour by all members, or substitute committee members acting in place of those members, of the GMCA to be carried.