The executive of a local authority must take a form specified in subsections (2) to (5) that is applicable to the authority.
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The executive may take any such form as may be prescribed in regulations made by the Welsh Ministers.
Regulations under subsection (5) may, in particular, provide for—
A local authority executive may not include the chairman or vice-chairman of the authority.
The number of members of a mayor and cabinet executive or a leader and cabinet executive (Wales) may not exceed 10.
But if two or more councillors are elected to share office as executive leader (by virtue of paragraph 2(2A) of Schedule 1) or are appointed to the executive to share office (by virtue of paragraph 2A of Schedule 1), the number of members of the executive may exceed 10 but not 13; and where the number of members of the executive is—
For the purposes of subsections (8) and (8ZA), no account is to be taken of a member appointed to the executive on a temporary basis to cover the absence of a member exercising a right to a family absence under Part 2 of the Local Government (Wales) Measure 2011.
The Welsh Ministers may by regulations amend subsections (8) and (8ZA) so as to provide for different maximum numbers of members of an executive to which those subsections apply; but the power under this subsection may not be exercised so as to provide—
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Section 101 of the Local Government Act 1972 (arrangements for discharge of functions by local authorities) does not apply to the function of electing a leader under subsection ... (3)(a) or appointing councillors or an officer to the executive under subsection (3)(b)(ii) or (4)(b).