I move amendment No. 37:
In page 32, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following subsection:
"(5) This section shall not apply to membership of a committee established by a local authority.".
Section 39 prohibits the chairperson, ordinary directors of the executive board and employees of the authority from also being members of a local authority. Under the Bill, a local authority means a local authority for the purposes of the Local Government Act, 1941, and would, therefore, include a committee established by a local authority. Members are aware that I have launched a new programme for change of local government and implicit in that is the development of strategic policy committees which would serve the main local authorities. It is envisaged that a broad range of talent would be drawn into these policy committees and I think it would be inappropriate that they would be debarred from being either the chairperson or a member of the executive board of the authority. For that reason I want to make this change.