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

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Introduction

PART 1
General

1 Title, extent and application, and commencement

2 Interpretation

3 Interaction with standing orders etc.

4 Publishing electronically

PART 2
Remote attendance

5 Remote attendance

PART 3
Requirements relating to meetings

6 When certain annual meetings may be held

7 Schedule 12 to the 1972 Act is to be read…

8 Paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 to the National Park Authorities…

9 Date and time of other meetings

10 Failure to attend meetings

11 Election of chairs and vice-chairs of principal councils and community councils at annual meetings

12 Election of chairs and deputy chairs of National Park authorities at annual meetings

13 Election of chair of the joint board of Swansea Bay Port Health Authority at annual meeting

14 Other appointments and elections required to take place at meetings

15 Substitute members of local planning authority committees

16 Voting at community council meetings

17 Notices and summonses

18 Paragraph 6 of Schedule 3 to the National Park Authorities…

PART 4
Modification of public access requirements

19 Access to meetings of certain local authorities and related documents

20 (1) Section 1 of the Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings)…

21 (1) Part 5A of the 1972 Act has effect as…

22 (1) Paragraph 41 of Schedule 12 to the 1972 Act…

23 (1) The Local Authorities (Executive Arrangements) (Decisions, Documents and Meetings)…

24 Section 228 of the 1972 Act (inspection of documents) is…

25 Section 26 of the Public Audit (Wales) Act 2004 (publicity…

26 The Schedule contains modifications of various enactments, which relate to…

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE Further modifications related to Part 4

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PART 4Modification of public access requirements

F124.

Section 228 of the 1972 Act (inspection of documents) is to be read in relation to a meeting of a local authority to which that section applies (by virtue of any enactment), held before the end of 30 April 2021, as if—

(a)

before subsection (1) there were inserted—

“A1

A copy of the minutes of proceedings of a community council must, so far as reasonably practicable, be supplied on request to a local government elector for the area of the council; and a reasonable fee may be charged for providing a copy of the minutes.”;

(b)

in subsection (1), “or community” were omitted;

(c)

in subsection (6), before “this section” there were inserted “any of subsections (1) to (5) of”.