(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend regulations 5 and 16B of the Local Government (Committees and Political Groups) Regulations 1990.
The amendment to regulation 5 secures that references in paragraphs (1)(a) and (2)(c) to functions include the functions mentioned in Part I of the Schedule to the Regulations (inserted by S.I. 1993/1339 and substituted by S.I. 1998/1918).
Regulation 16B is concerned with representation on joint area committees of county and district councils. The effect of the amendment is to secure that the number of appointees with voting rights of each of the participating district councils is at least the same as the number of county council appointees with voting rights. Where an insufficient number of district council members are qualified for appointment (they must be elected for district wards wholly or partly within the area in which the joint committee discharges functions), the participating district council is required to appoint only so many of its members as satisfy that requirement.