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58Official business of members
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(1)A local authority must not discriminate against a member of the authority in relation to the member’s carrying out of official business—

(a)in the way the authority affords the member access, or by not affording the member access, to opportunities for training or for receiving any other facility;

(b)by subjecting the member to any other detriment.

(2)A local authority must not, in relation to a member’s carrying out of official business, harass the member.

(3)A local authority must not victimise a member of the authority in relation to the member’s carrying out of official business—

(a)in the way the authority affords the member access, or by not affording the member access, to opportunities for training or for receiving any other facility;

(b)by subjecting the member to any other detriment.

(4)A member of a local authority is not subjected to a detriment for the purposes of subsection (1)(b) or (3)(b) only because the member is—

(a)not appointed or elected to an office of the authority,

(b)not appointed or elected to, or to an office of, a committee or sub-committee of the authority, or

(c)not appointed or nominated in exercise of an appointment power of the authority.

(5)In subsection (4)(c), an appointment power of a local authority is a power of the authority, or of a group of bodies including the authority, to make—

(a)appointments to a body;

(b)nominations for appointment to a body.

(6)A duty to make reasonable adjustments applies to a local authority.

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