The Corporate Joint Committees (General) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2022

Governance and audit sub-committeesE+W

Appointment of a chairperson and deputyE+W

11.—(1) A governance and audit sub-committee of a corporate joint committee must appoint—

(a)a chairperson, and

(b)a deputy chairperson.

(2) The chairperson and the deputy chairperson must be appointed from among the members of the governance and audit sub-committee.

(3) The member appointed as the chairperson may not also be a member of a county council or county borough council in Wales.

Proceedings etc.E+W

12.—(1) A meeting of the governance and audit sub-committee of a corporate joint committee (“the sub-committee”) is to be chaired—

(a)by the chairperson, or

(b)if the chairperson is absent, the deputy chairperson.

(2) If both the chairperson and the deputy chairperson are absent the sub-committee may appoint another of its members to chair the meeting.

(3) All members of the sub-committee may vote on any question that falls to be decided by the sub-committee.

(4) The sub-committee may—

(a)require members and members of staff of the corporate joint committee to attend before it to answer questions, and

(b)may invite other persons to attend meetings of the sub-committee.

(5) It is the duty of any member or member of staff of the corporate joint committee to comply with any requirement imposed under paragraph (4)(a).

(6) But a person is not obliged under paragraph (5) to answer any question which the person would be entitled to refuse to answer in, or for the purposes of, proceedings in a court in England and Wales.

Frequency of governance and audit sub-committee meetingsE+W

13.—(1) The governance and audit sub-committee of a corporate joint committee (“the sub-committee”) must meet once in every calendar year.

(2) The sub-committee must also meet if—

(a)the corporate joint committee resolves that the sub-committee should meet, or

(b)at least one-third of the members of the sub-committee requisition a meeting by one or more notices in writing given to the chairperson.

(3) It is the duty of the person who chairs the sub-committee to secure that meetings of the sub-committee are held as required by paragraphs (1) and (2).

(4) This regulation does not prevent the sub-committee from meeting otherwise than as required by this regulation.