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Emergency Management Bill (No 2)

Emergency management system role-holders - Regional role-holders - Emergency Management Committees

34: Attendance at Emergency Management Committee meetings by audio link or audiovisual link

You could also call this:

"Joining Emergency Management Committee meetings from somewhere else by phone or video"

Illustration for Emergency Management Bill (No 2)

You can attend an Emergency Management Committee meeting by audio or video link. You can do this even if other laws or rules say you cannot. This includes rules from the Local Government Act 2002 and the committee's own rules, such as those under section 33. You can attend by audio or video link if you are a representative of a committee member. This means you are allowed to join in the meeting from somewhere else. If you attend a meeting by audio or video link, you will be counted as being there for the purposes of certain rules in the Local Government Act 2002.

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Regional role-holders: Emergency Management Committees

34Attendance at Emergency Management Committee meetings by audio link or audiovisual link

  1. A representative of a member of an Emergency Management Committee (including a representative of a unitary authority that is a unitary authority Emergency Management Committee) may attend any meeting of the Committee by means of audio link or audiovisual link unless lawfully excluded.

  2. The representative may attend by means of audio link or audiovisual link despite—

  3. clauses 25A(1) and (4) and 27(5)(a) of Schedule 7 of the Local Government Act 2002; and
    1. any limitation or condition on the use of an audio link or audiovisual link, or other contrary provision, that is contained in any standing orders that apply to the meeting (including all of the standing orders that apply under section 33).

      1. A representative who attends a meeting by means of audio link or audiovisual link in accordance with this section must be counted as present for the purposes of clauses 23 and 30A of Schedule 7 of the Local Government Act 2002.