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
PART 1General
Interpretation3.
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).