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The Corporate Joint Committees (General) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2021

Welsh Statutory Instrument 2021 No. 1349 — creates 1 criminal offence.

1offences created
0recorded in force
0revoked
Made
1 December 2021
In force from
3 December 2021
Extent
Not stated
Subject
Education, social security, pensions and public services
Made under
Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

These Regulations are made as part of a suite of regulations connected with the establishment of corporate joint committees in Wales by regulations under Part 5 of the Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021. There are six parts to these Regulations. Part 1 makes provision about commencement and interpretation of these Regulations. Part 2 provides that corporate joint committees in Wales must appoint executive officers, namely a Chief Executive Officer, a Chief Finance Officer and a Monitoring Officer. This Part also provides further detail on the functions to be exercised by each of these office holders. Part 3 includes general provisions in relation to corporate joint committee staff. For example, this Part amends the definition of a “proper officer” in the Local Government Act 1972. It also applies provisions in Part 1 of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 to corporate joint committees. These provide that certain posts in a corporate joint committee are politically restricted as they are in a local authority and that holders of such posts in any relevant authority may not be co-opted as members of a corporate joint committee. Part 4 makes provision permitting corporate joint committees to make arrangements for their functions to be discharged by sub-committees, staff or in conjunction with other corporate joint committees or county or county borough councils in Wales. A sub-committee appointed by a corporate joint committee may have members who are not also members of the corporate joint committee. Part 5 provides detail on the manner in which meetings and proceedings of corporate joint committees (and any sub-committee of a corporate joint committee) are to be undertaken. For example notice and documentation requirements and provision about the location of (and remote access to) meetings. Part 6 sets out miscellaneous and consequential amendments that it is necessary to make to both some primary and secondary legislation as a result of the establishment of corporate joint committees and the other provisions in these Regulations. These Regulations are connected with the regulations which established certain corporate joint committees under Part 5 of the Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 and which came into force on 1 April 2021 and 30 June 2021. A regulatory impact assessment was prepared at the time of making those establishment regulations and a copy can be obtained from the Local Government Strategic Finance Division, Welsh Government, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NQ.

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