Amendments to the Standards Committees (Wales) Regulations 2001 6.

In regulation 7—

(a)

in paragraph (1)—

(i)

omit “A person” and insert “Subject to (1A), a person”;

(ii)

in the Welsh language text, after “nad yw’n” for “aelod” substitute “swyddog”;

(b)

after paragraph (1) insert—

“(1A)

Where the relevant authority referred to in regulation 7(1) is a corporate joint committee, a person who has been, but is no longer an officer of a corporate joint committee or an officer of a constituent authority or constituent National Park Authority of that corporate joint committee, shall not be an independent member of the standards committee of that corporate joint committee.”;

(c)

in paragraph (2), after “one or more relevant authorities” insert “or if the relevant authority is a corporate joint authority, an officer of its constituent authorities or constituent National Park Authority”.