The Local Authorities (Arrangements for the Discharge of Functions) (England) Regulations 2000

Members of joint committees

12.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) to (4) below, every person appointed to a joint committee in accordance with regulation 11 above by an executive, a member of an executive or a committee of an executive shall be a member of that executive, and the political balance requirements shall not apply to the appointment of such members.

(2) Where the executive concerned is a mayor and council manager executive, if the council manager is not a member of the joint committee, one other officer of the local authority may be a member of that committee.

(3) Where—

(a) the joint committee has functions in respect of part only of the area of one of the local authorities concerned;

(b) those functions are the responsibility of the executive of that authority; and

(c) either—

(i) the area of that part does not exceed two-fifths of the total area of the authority; or

(ii) the population of that part, as estimated by the authority, does not exceed two-fifths of the total population of the authority as so estimated,

the representatives of that authority on the joint committee may include any members of that authority who have been elected for electoral divisions or wards which are wholly or partly within that part of the authority’s area, and the political balance requirements shall not apply to the appointment of those members.

(4) Where the joint committee is established under arrangements made between a county council and a single district council for the discharge of functions which are the responsibility of the executive of the county council, the representatives of the county council on the joint committee may include any members of the county council who have been elected for electoral divisions which are wholly or partly within the area of the district council, and the political balance requirements shall not apply to the appointment of those members.

(5) Where the joint committee has functions in respect of part of the area of one of the local authorities concerned and the representatives of that authority on that committee are appointed, in accordance with regulation 11, by the authority itself, the political balance requirements shall not apply to the appointment of those representatives and those representatives shall be members of that local authority who have been elected for electoral divisions or wards which are wholly or partly within that part of the authority’s area.