PART 6General
Duty to inform33.
(1)
Having been notified in accordance with Parts 1 to 5 of these Regulations that a member is taking a period of family absence, the head of democratic services must inform each relevant person as soon as is reasonably practicable of that fact.
(2)
In this regulation “relevant person” (“person perthnasol”) means—
(a)
the chair of the local authority, or where a local authority has elected a presiding member, the presiding member of that local authority;
(b)
the chair of the local authority’s Democratic Services Committee; and
(c)
the leader of each political group of the local authority.