
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Local Government (Committees and Political Groups) (Amendment) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 2nd September 1998.
2 
The Local Government (Committees and Political Groups) Regulations 1990 shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.
3 

(1) In regulation 4(1)—
(a) in sub-paragraph (g), delete “in the case of a metropolitan district council” and the word“and” at the end; and
(b) for sub-paragraph (h) substitute—“
(h) in the case of the council of a county in England, any function of that council mentioned in the Schedule to these Regulations to the extent that it is discharged by a committee the members of which consist solely of members of that council and of members of the council of any district in the county or (as the case may be) a district which has ceased to be in the county pursuant to an order made under section 17 of the Local Government Act 1992 giving effect to a structural change (within the meaning of that Act); and
(i) in the case of the council of a district, any function of that council mentioned in that Schedule to the extent that it is discharged by a committee the members of which consist solely of members of that council and of members of the council of the county in which the district is situated.”.
(2) For the Schedule (provisions conferring prescribed functions) substitute the Schedule contained in the Schedule to these Regulations.
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(1) In regulation 16A (area committees and sub-committees), number the existing words as paragraph (1) and for paragraph (1)(b) substitute—“
(b) all the voting members of the committee or sub-committee who are members of the council or, in either of the cases falling within paragraph (2) below, of another council have been elected for electoral divisions or wards which are wholly or partly within that part;”.
(2) At the end of regulation 16A add—“
(2) The cases mentioned in paragraph (1)(b) above are—
(a) a committee or sub-committee of a county council established in respect of a part of the county comprising the whole or part of one or more districts within the county and whose members include members of the council of the district or, as the case may be, districts; or
(b) a committee or sub-committee of a district council whose members include members of the council of the county in which the district is situated.”.
(3) After regulation 16A, add—“
16B 

(1) Section 15 of the 1989 Act shall not apply to a joint committee where—
(a) the relevant authorities appointing the joint committee are the councils of a county in England and of one or more districts in the county;
(b) the joint committee is established exclusively to discharge functions in respect of an area comprising the whole or part of one or more such districts;
(c) at least one member elected for each electoral division or ward which is wholly or partly within that area is appointed a voting member of the joint committee by each relevant authority; and
(d) not more than two of the voting members of the joint committee appointed by each relevant authority have been elected for electoral divisions or wards which are outside that area.
(2) In this regulation, “joint committee” means a body described in paragraph 2(1)(h) of Schedule 1 to the 1989 Act.”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
Hilary Armstrong
Minister of State,
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
5th August 1998
SCHEDULE
Regulation 3(2)
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SCHEDULE
Regulation 4(1)(h) and (i)
PART I
 Functions of a county council in its capacity as a highway authority under any enactment.
 Functions of a district council under the Highways Act 1980.
 Functions of a county or (as the case may be) district council under any of the enactments listed in Part II of this Schedule.

PART II
 Sections 37 to 68 of the Town Police Clauses Act 1847 (hackney carriages)
 Sections 17 to 19 of the Public Health Act 1925 (street naming)
 Sections 4 to 7 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous) Provisions Act 1953 (bus shelters)
 Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964
 Countryside Act 1968
 Transport Act 1968
 Local Authority Social Services Act 1970
 Part II of the Land Compensation Act 1973 (mitigation of injurious effect of public works)
 Sections 22 and 23 (street cleaning) of the Control of Pollution Act 1974
 Sections 23 to 26 (dangerous trees and excavations), and Part II (hackney carriages and private hire vehicles), of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976
 Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981
 Part III of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (public rights of way)
 Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984
 Transport Act 1985
 Road Traffic Act 1988
 Chapter II of Part VI (interests affected by planning proposals: blight) and Part X (highways) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990
 Environmental Protection Act 1990
 Road Traffic Act 1991
 Environment Act 1995
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