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232 Public notices.E+W

(1)Save as otherwise expressly provided, a public notice required to be given by a local authority shall be given—

(a)by posting the notice in some conspicuous place or places within the area of the local authority; F1...

(b)in such other manner, if any, as appears to the local authority to be desirable for giving publicity to the notice.

[F2; and

(c)where the local authority is a local authority in Wales, by publishing it electronically.]

F3(1ZA). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F4(1A)In subsection (1) above “local authority” includes [F5a corporate joint committee,] a joint authority, [F6an economic prosperity board, a combined authority] F7... [F8, [F9a combined county authority,] [F10a fire and rescue authority created by an order under section 4A of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004,] a police and crime commissioner and the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime] F11... F12....]

[F13(1B)In the application of subsection (1) to a corporate joint committee, the reference to the corporate joint committee’s area is to be read as a reference to the area specified as the corporate joint committee’s area in regulations under Part 5 of the Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 establishing the corporate joint committee.]

(2)This section shall apply to a public notice required to be given by the chairman of a parish meeting as it applies to public notices required to be given by a parish council.

[F14(3)The Welsh Ministers may by regulations make further or different provision about the manner of giving a public notice required to be given by a local authority in Wales.

(4)Regulations under subsection (3) may also make provision about the manner of giving a public notice required to be given by—

(a)a National Park authority for a National Park in Wales;

(b)a fire and rescue authority constituted by a scheme under section 2 of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004, or a scheme to which section 4 of that Act applies, for an area in Wales.

(5)Regulations under subsection (3) may—

(a)make different provision for different purposes;

(b)include supplementary, incidental, consequential, transitional, transitory or saving provision (including provision amending, modifying, repealing or revoking any enactment (including this Act and the Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021)).

(6)A statutory instrument containing regulations under subsection (3) must not be made unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before and approved by resolution of Senedd Cymru.]

Textual Amendments

F7Words in s. 232(1A) omitted (26.5.2015) by virtue of Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20), s. 115(7), Sch. 13 para. 6(7)(r); S.I. 2015/994, art. 6(g)

F9Words in s. 232(1A) inserted (26.12.2023) by Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 (c. 55), s. 255(2)(c), Sch. 4 para. 44 (with s. 247)

F10Words in s. 232(1A) inserted (31.1.2017 for specified purposes, 3.4.2017 in so far as not already in force) by Policing and Crime Act 2017 (c. 3), s. 183(1)(5)(e), Sch. 1 para. 30; S.I. 2017/399, reg. 2, Sch. para. 38

F11Words in s. 232(1A) repealed (1.4.2002) by 2001 c. 16, s. 137, Sch. 7 Pt. 5(1); S.I. 2002/344, art. 3(j)(m) (with transitional provisions in art. 4)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C2S. 232 modified (7.8.1991) by S.I.1991/1773 art. 8(2), Sch. 2

S. 232: certain functions transferred (7.8.1991) by S.I.1991/1773, art. 8, Sch. 2

S. 232 extended (5.7.1994) by 1994 c. 19, ss. 39(2), 66(2)(b), Sch. 13 para. 19(g) (with ss. 54(5)(7), 55(5), Sch. 17 paras. 22(1), 23(2))

S. 232 modified (1.4.1995) by S.I. 1995/401, art. 18, Sch. para. 1(e)

S. 232 applied (temp. from 4.5.1995 to 31.3.1996) by S.I. 1995/1042, art. 4(1)

S. 232: power to make provisions about matters of the kind dealt with in this section conferred (1.9.1997) by 1997 c. 50, s. 44(1), Sch. 4(a)(xiv); S.I. 1997/1930, art. 2(1)(2)(m)

S. 232 extended (8.5.2000) by 1999 c. 29, s. 75 (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1)); S.I. 2000/801, art. 2(2)(b), Sch. Pt. 2

C4Ss. 224-234 applied (with modifications) (E.) (24.3.2011) by The Hull and Goole Port Health Authority Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/939), arts. 1(1), 7, Sch. 1

C5S. 232 applied (with modifications) (10.7.2011) by Local Government (Wales) Measure 2011 (nawm 4), ss. 119, 178(2) (with s. 120)

C11S. 232(1A) amended by S.I. 1985/1884, art. 10, Sch. 3 para. 1(n)

C12S. 232(1A) modified by S.I. 1987/2110, art. 2(2), Sch. 1 para. 3(n)

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