holds the post of chief executive of a local authority which is the council of a county or county borough in Wales;

holds a politically restricted post under a corporate joint committee.

in subsection (1)(a) (paid office holders and employees), the words “joint board, joint authority or” shall be omitted; and

in subsection (6) (extension of meaning of “local authority”), after the word “includes” there shall be inserted “ a joint board and ”.

in subsection (1)(a)(ii), the words “or joint board” shall be omitted; and

the person designated under section 4 below as the head of the authority’s paid service;

the statutory chief officers;

a non-statutory chief officer;

a deputy chief officer;

the monitoring officer designated under section 5 below;

any person holding a post to which he was appointed in pursuance of section 9 below; F11and

any person not falling within paragraphs (a) to (f) above whose post is for the time being specified by the authority in a list maintained in accordance with subsection (2) below and any directions under section 3 F12or 3A below or with section 100G(2) of the M4Local Government Act 1972 or section 50G(2) of the M5Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (list of officers to whom powers are delegated) F13; and

the head of democratic services designated under section 8 of the Local Government (Wales) Measure 2011.

a person appointed as the chief executive of the corporate joint committee;

a person described in subsection (1)(b) to (e);

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posts F17F18... the duties of which appear to the authority to fall within subsection (3) below,

giving advice on a regular basis to the authority themselves, to any committee or sub-committee of the authority or to any joint committee on which the authority are represented F20or, where the authority are operating executive arrangements, to the executive of the authority, to any committee of that executive, or to any member of that executive who is also a member of the authority;

speaking on behalf of the authority on a regular basis to journalists or broadcasters.

the director of children’s services appointed under section 18 of the Children Act 2004 and the director of adult social services appointed under section 6(A1) of the Local Authority Social Services Act 1970 (in the case of a local authority in England);

the director of public health appointed under section 73A(1) of the National Health Service Act 2006;

the chief education officer F25or director of education appointed under F26section 532 of the Education Act 1996F25or section 78 of the M8Education (Scotland) Act 1980 F27(in the case of a local authority in Wales);

F28the chief officer of a fire brigade maintained under the M9Fire Services Act 1947 and appointed under regulations made under section 18(1)(a) of that Act;

the director of social services F29(in the case of a local authority in Wales) or F30chief social work officer appointed under F31section 144 of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 or section 3 of the M10Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968; and

the officer having responsibility, for the purposes of section 151 of the Local Government Act 1972, section 73 of the M11Local Government Act 1985, section 112 of the M12Local Government Finance Act 1988 F32, section 127(2) of the Greater London Authority Act 1999 or section 6 below or for the purposes of section 95 of the M13Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, for the administration of the authority’s financial affairs.

a person for whom the head of the authority’s paid service F33 or (in the case of a council for a county or county borough in Wales) the authority's chief executive is directly responsible;

a person who, as respects all or most of the duties of his post, is required to report directly or is directly accountable to the head of the authority’s paid service F34 or (in the case of a council for a county or county borough in Wales) the authority's chief executive; and

any person who, as respects all or most of the duties of his post, is required to report directly or is directly accountable to the local authority themselves or any committee or sub-committee of the authority.

the post of head teacher or principal of a school, college or other educational institution or establishment which, in England and Wales, is maintained or assisted by a F35local authority or, in Scotland, is under the management of or is assisted by an education authority; or

any other post as a teacher or lecturer in any such school, college, institution or establishment,

the reference to two months is to be read as a reference to six months, and

to carry out the functions in relation to political restriction which are conferred by subsections (2) to (7) below; and

to give such general advice with respect to the determination of questions arising by virtue of section 2(3) above as that person considers appropriate after consulting such representatives of local government and such organisations appearing to him to represent employees in local government as he considers appropriate.

shall consider any application for exemption from political restrictionwhich is made to him, in respect of any post under a local authority, by the holder for the time being of that post; and

may, on the application of any person or otherwise, give directions to a local authority requiring it to include a post in the list maintained by the authority under section 2(2) above.

the authority have specified or are proposing to specify the post in the list maintained by the authority under subsection (2) of section 2 above; F39...

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that, for so long as the direction has effect in accordance with its terms, the post is not to be regarded as a politically restricted post; and

that, accordingly, the post is not to be specified in the list maintained by that authority under section 2(2) above or, as the case may be, is to be removed from that list.

is a post the duties of which fall within section 2(3) above; and

is neither included in any list maintained by the authority in accordance with section 2(2) above, section 100G(2) of the M14Local Government Act 1972 F43, regulation 24(2) of the Corporate Joint Committees (General) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2021 or section 50G(2) of the M15Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 nor of a description specified in any regulations under section 2(2) above.

to give a person appointed under subsection (1) above all such information as that person may reasonably require for the purpose of carrying out his functions under this section;

to comply with any direction under this section with respect to the list maintained by the authority; and

on being given a direction by virtue of subsection (2)(b) above, to notify the terms of the direction to the holder for the time being of the post to which the direction relates.

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provide for the appointment of such numbers of staff to assist any person appointed under F45subsection (1), and to act on that person’s behalf, as the Secretary of State may with the consent of the Treasury determine;

pay to or in respect of a person appointed under that subsection andmembers of such a person’s staff such remuneration and such other sums by way of, or towards, the payment of pensions, allowances and gratuities as the Secretary of State may so determine; and

provide for a person appointed under that subsection and such a person’s staff to hold office on such other terms as the Secretary of State may so determine.

must consider any application for exemption from political restriction which is made to the F50head of paid service, in respect of any post under the F51... authority, by the holder for the time being of that post; and

may, on the application of any person or otherwise, give directions to the F52... authority requiring it to include a post in the list maintained by the authority under section 2(2).

the F53... authority have specified or are proposing to specify the post in the list maintained by them under section 2(2);F54...

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that, for so long as the direction has effect in accordance with its terms, the post is not to be regarded as a politically restricted post; and

that accordingly the post is not to be specified in the list maintained by the F59... authority under section 2(2) or (as the case may be) is to be removed from that list.

the duties of the post fall within section 2(3); and

give its F65head of paid service all such information as the F66head of paid service may reasonably require for the purpose of carrying out F67... functions under this section;

comply with any direction under this section with respect to the list maintained by the authority; and

on being given a direction under subsection (1)(b), notify the terms of the direction to the person who holds the post to which the direction relates.