Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations, which extend to England and Wales, amend the Local Government (Committees and Political Groups) Regulations 1990 in respect of the circumstances in which the members of certain committees of local authorities may have voting rights.
Regulation 2 adds certain functions connected with highways and with the countryside to the functions in respect of the discharge of which all members of a committee may have voting rights. All such functions are consolidated in Schedule 1. Regulation 4 effects a consequential revocation.
Regulation 3 enables all the members of the Sussex Downs Conservation Board to vote in respect of the matters delegated to that body (which are specified in Schedule 2) by the councils of the counties of East Sussex and West Sussex.