Local Government Act, 2001
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Municipal policy committees. |
49.—(1) A town council may establish by resolution a committee to be known as a municipal policy committee to consider matters connected with the formulation, development, monitoring and review of policy which relate to the functions of the town council and to advise the town council on those matters. | |
(2) A municipal policy committee consists partly of persons who are and partly of persons who are not members of the town council concerned. | ||
(3) (a) The establishment of a municipal policy committee shall be undertaken by a town council in accordance with such guidelines as may be issued by the Minister for that purpose under section 54 (2). | ||
(b) The chairperson of a municipal policy committee shall be a member of the town council concerned. | ||
(4) Subsections (3) to (6) of section 48 apply to a municipal policy committee as if the references to a strategic policy committee were references to a municipal policy committee. |