The Charter Trustees Regulations 2009

Appointment of additional charter trustees

6.—(1) In this regulation—

“appoint” includes reappoint, and references to appointed and appointment are to be construed accordingly;

“the appointing body” means—

(a)

if the charter trustee area has the status of a city, the relevant council, or

(b)

if the charter trustee area does not have the status of a city, the charter trustees; and

“councillor” means a councillor of the relevant council.

(2) Where, at any time, the number of charter trustees for a charter trustee area is less than five, the appointing body shall, as soon as practicable, appoint as charter trustees such number of councillors as may be required to bring the total number of charter trustees for that area to five.

(3) The appointing body may appoint councillors as charter trustees provided that at any time no more than three charter trustees for the charter trustee area in question shall have been appointed under this paragraph.

(4) Appointments made by charter trustees under paragraph (3) shall not be made except at the annual meeting of those trustees.

(5) These Regulations shall apply in relation to charter trustees appointed under this regulation as they apply in relation to charter trustees established by a section 7 order.

(6) Any councillor appointed under this regulation shall (subject to paragraph (7)) hold office as a charter trustee until the next election to the relevant council or such time as that person ceases to be a councillor, whichever is the sooner.

(7) Charter trustees may remove from office a councillor appointed under this regulation if, in their opinion, that councillor has, without sufficient cause, failed to attend two or more consecutive meetings of theirs.