Legislation – The Countryside Access (Local Access Forums) (Wales) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020
Meetings held before the end of 30 April 20216.
Regulation 15 (conduct of meetings) is to be read as if—
(a)
in paragraph (2), for the words from “shall be open to the public” to the end there were substituted “if the meeting is open to the public, the person presiding may, if a particular item of business to be considered at the meeting makes it appropriate for the public to be excluded during consideration of that item of business, rule that the public are to be excluded”;
(b)
“(2A)
In paragraphs (1) and (2), the references to the place or places at which meetings are to be held are not limited to a single physical location.”;
(c)
in paragraph (10), for “of those members present” there were substituted “, or such other method of voting as the forum may decide, by those members present”;
(d)
“(11)
If a vote is necessary on the question of the method of voting the forum is to use, the person presiding is to determine the method of voting on that question.”