a local authority or parish or community council in England and Wales, or

a local authority in Scotland,

sections 9 and 12 of the M3Disabled Persons (Employment) Act 1944 (quotas and reserved employment);

section 18 of the M4Fire Services Act 1947 (regulations as to appointment etc. of chief officers and fire brigades);

section 7 of the M5Sex Discrimination Act 1975 (discrimination permitted in relation to employment where sex of employee is a genuine occupational qualification);

section 5 of the M6Race Relations Act 1976 (discrimination permitted in relation to employment where being of a particular racial group is a genuine occupational qualification); and

section 113 of the M7Local Government Finance Act 1988 and section 6 above (qualifications of officers responsible for administration of financial affairs of certain authorities).

to incorporate such provision as may be prescribed by the regulations in standing orders relating to their staff; and

to make or refrain from making such other modifications of any such standing orders as may be so prescribed.

the appointment of persons to paid office or employment under the authority; or

the dismissal of persons holding such office or employment and the taking of other disciplinary action against such persons.

so to restrict the manner of exercising the power to take steps for or towards the selection of candidates for interview, or for appointment, as to make it exercisable only by the authority themselves, by a committee or sub-committee of the authority or by particular officers of the authority;

to require the monitoring officer of the authority to prepare a report to the authority in respect of every proposed appointment of a person to a politically restricted post;

to prohibit the authority or any committee, sub-committee or other person acting on their behalf from dismissing or taking other disciplinary action against a person holding office or employment under the authority except in accordance with recommendations contained in a report made to the authority by an independent person of such a description as is prescribed by the regulations.

provision which, for the purposes of any such restriction as is mentioned in subsection (3) above, makes modifications of any enactment with respect to the delegation of a relevant authority’s functions;

provision which (with or without modifications) applies provisions of section 5 above in relation to any report prepared in consequence of regulations made by virtue of subsection (3)(c) above;

without prejudice to section 190(1) below, special provision in relation to the appointment of persons in pursuance of section 9 below and in relation to the appointment of persons for the purposes of functions exercised by joint committees on which relevant authorities are represented.

in relation to England and Wales, means a local authority of any of the descriptions specified in paragraphs (a) to (e) of section 21(1) below; and

in relation to Scotland, means a regional, islands or district council.

the appointment is made for the purpose of providing assistance, in the discharge of any of their functions as members of a relevant authority, to the members of any political group to which members of the authority belong;

the terms of the appointment comply with subsection (3) below;

the appointment is to one of not more than three posts which a relevant authority have decided to create for the purposes of this section; and

each of those posts falls, under the standing orders of the authority, to be filled from time to time in accordance with the wishes of a political group to which the post has been allocated under those standing orders.

in the case of a post under an authority in England and Wales, the day in the appropriate year on which the authority hold the meeting which they are required to hold in pursuance of paragraph 1 of Part I of Schedule 12 to the M8Local Government Act 1972 (annual meeting of principal councils); and

in the case of a post under an authority in Scotland, the first day after the appointment on which a meeting is held in pursuance of the requirement under paragraph 1 of Schedule 7 to the M9Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 that a meeting is held within twenty-one days from the date of an election.

is less than £13,500 or such higher amount as the Secretary of State may by order made by statutory instrument specify; and

where that post is a part time post, would be less than that amount if it were a full time post and carried remuneration at the same rate;

prohibit the making of an appointment to any post allocated to a political group until the authority have allocated a post to each of the groups which qualify for one;

prohibit the allocation of a post to a political group which does not qualify for one; and

prohibit the allocation of more than one post to any one political group.

the membership of that group comprises at least one-tenth of the membership of the authority;

the number of the other groups (if any) which are larger than that group does not exceed two; and

where the number of the other groups which are the same size as or larger than that group exceeds two, the authority have determined that that group should be a group to which a post is allocated;

the groups qualifying for a post shall be that group and one other group; and

the other group shall be the one with the next largest membership or, in a case in which there is more than one group with the next largest membership, such one of those groups as may be determined by the authority;

section 101 of the M10Local Government Act 1972 (delegation); or

section 56 of, or Schedule 10 or 20 to, the M11Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (which makes corresponding provision for Scotland),

as to the circumstances in which the members of a relevant authority are to be treated as divided into different political groups;

as to the persons who are to be treated as members of such a group and as to when a person is to be treated as having ceased to be a member of such a group;

requiring the question whether a person is or is not a member of a political group to be determined in such manner as may be provided for by or under the regulations;

requiring a relevant authority from time to time to review allocations made for the purposes of this section;

specifying the manner in which, and times at which, the wishes of a political group are to be expressed and the consequences of a failure by such a group to express its wishes;

a local authority permit an employee of theirs to take time off for the purpose of performing the duties of a member of a relevant council; and

those duties do not include the duties of chairman of the council,

to inspect so much of any document as contains personal information about a member of the relevant body’s staff; or

to require any such information to be disclosed in answer to any question.

that that individual holds or has held any office or employment under that body; or

that payments or other benefits in respect of any office or employment under any other person are or have been made or provided to that individual by that body.

the inspection of, or of documents relating to, accounts for periods beginning on or after 1st April 1990; and

the disclosure of information in answer to questions about such accounts.

a person who is both a member of the authority and in such employment; or

a person who is both a member of the authority and an official or employee of a trade union whose members include persons in local authority employment.