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Section 80C: Paid office or employment to which disqualification applies

Local Government Act 1972 · 1972 c. 70View on legislation.gov.uk

Part V: General Provisions as to Members and Proceedings of Local Authorities

For the purposes of section 80B "a relevant paid office or employment" is a paid office or employment appointment or election to which is or may be made or confirmed by—

the local authority to which the person was elected a member;
a committee or sub-committee of the local authority;
a joint committee or National Park authority on which the local authority is represented; ...
a corporate joint committee established in relation to the area of the local authority; or
a holder of a paid office or employment of the kind described in paragraphs (a), (b) ,(c) or (ca).

But a relevant paid office or employment in subsection (1) does not include the office of—

chairman, vice-chairman, presiding member or deputy presiding member, or
in the case of a local authority operating executive arrangements which involve a leader and cabinet executive, the office of executive leader, member of the executive or assistant to the executive.

Subsection (1) has effect in relation to a teacher in a school maintained by a local authority whether or not the appointment to the post was made in accordance with that subsection.

Where the holder of a relevant paid office in a local authority in Wales ("local authority A") is employed under the direction of—

a committee or sub-committee of local authority A any member of which is appointed on the nomination of another local authority in Wales ("local authority B"), or
a joint board, a National Park authority, or joint committee on which local authority A is represented and any member of which is appointed on the nomination of local authority B,

section 80B applies in respect of the person's membership of local authority B.

For the purposes of this section, a local authority is represented on a National Park authority if it is entitled to appoint a member of the local authority as a member of the National Park authority.

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