Legislation – The Local Authorities (Coronavirus) (Meetings) (Wales) Regulations 2020

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PART 3Requirements relating to meetings

Failure to attend meetings10.

Section 85 M1 of the 1972 Act (vacation of office by failure to attend meetings) is to be read in relation to a local authority to which that section applies (by virtue of any enactment) as if—

(a)

in subsection (3B), for “(3C) and (3D)” there were substituted “
(3C) to (3D)
”;

(b)

after subsection (3C) there were inserted—

“(3CA)

In relation to a member of a local authority in Wales, the period—

(a)

beginning with the day on which the Local Authorities (Coronavirus) (Meetings) (Wales) Regulations 2020 come into force, and

(b)

ending with the first day after the day mentioned in paragraph (a) on which a meeting is held, attendance at which would be—

(i)

attendance by the member at a meeting of the local authority for the purposes of subsection (1), or

(ii)

if the member is a member of the executive of the local authority, attendance by the member at a meeting of the executive for the purposes of subsection (2A),

is to be disregarded.”;

(c)

in subsection (3D), in each of paragraphs (a) and (b) after “(3C)” there were inserted “
or (as the case may be) (3CA)
”.