Legislation – The Local Authorities and Police and Crime Panels (Coronavirus) (Flexibility of Local Authority and Police and Crime Panel Meetings) (England and Wales) Regulations 2020

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Introduction

PART 1
General

1 Citation, commencement, extent, and application

2 (1) These Regulations extend to England and Wales.

3 Interpretation

PART 2
Remote attendance

4 Meetings of local authorities

5 (1) A reference in any enactment to a meeting of…

PART 3
Modification of meeting and public access requirements

6 Frequency of local authority meetings

7 The Greater London Authority Act 1999 applies as follows—

8 Paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 2 to the National…

9 Schedule 3 to the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty…

10 Schedule 3 to the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty…

11 Schedule 1 to the New Forest National Park Authority (Establishment)…

12 Schedule 1 to the South Downs National Park Authority (Establishment)…

13 Public and press access

14 Section 9G of the Local Government Act 2000 applies as…

15 Part VA of the 1972 Act(access to meetings and documents…

16 (1) The Local Authorities (Executive Arrangements) (Meetings and Access to…

17 A local authority may comply with regulation 8 of the…

PART 4
Police and Crime Panels

18 Amendment to the Police and Crime Panels (Application of Local Authority Enactments) Regulations 2012

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Explanatory note

PART 1General

Citation, commencement, extent, and application

1.

These Regulations may be cited as the Local Authorities and Police and Crime Panels (Coronavirus) (Flexibility of Local Authority and Police and Crime Panel Meetings) (England and Wales) Regulations 2020 and come into force on 4th April 2020.

2.

(1)

These Regulations extend to England and Wales.

(2)

Parts 1 and 4 of these Regulations apply to England and Wales.

(3)

Parts 2 and 3 of these Regulations apply to England only.

(4)

These Regulations apply to local authority meetings and police and crime panel meetings that are required to be held, or held, before 7th May 2021.

Interpretation

3.

In these Regulations—

“the 1972 Act” means the Local Government Act 19723;

“local authority” means—

(a)

a county council;

(b)

a district council;

(c)

a London borough council;

(d)

the Common Council of the City of London;

(e)

the Greater London Authority;

(f)

the Council of the Isles of Scilly;

(g)

a parish council;

(h)

a joint board continued in being by virtue of section 263(1) of the 1972 Act;

(i)

a port health authority constituted under section 2 of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 19844;

(j)

an authority established under section 10 of the Local Government Act 19855;

(k)

a joint authority established under Part 4 of the Local Government Act 1985;

(l)

a joint committee constituted to be a local planning authority under section 29 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 20046;

(m)

a combined authority established under section 103 of the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 20097;

(n)

a fire and rescue authority constituted by a scheme under section 2 of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 20048 or a scheme to which section 4 of that Act applies, or created by an order under section 4A of that Act;

(o)

a National Park authority established under section 63 of the Environment Act 19959;

(p)

the Broads Authority established by section 1 of the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Act 198810; and

(q)

a conservation board established under section 86 of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 200011;

“local authority meeting” means a meeting of—

(a)

a local authority;

(b)

an executive of a local authority (within the meaning of Part 1A of the Local Government Act 2000)12;

(c)

a joint committee of two or more authorities;

(d)

a committee or sub-committee of anything within paragraphs (a) to (c);

“remote access” is to be construed in accordance with regulation 5(6)(c);

“remote attendance” is to be construed in accordance with regulation 5(2) and (3).