Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill

133: Schedule 6, page 128, line 14, at end insert— ““(ba) paragraphs 7C and 7D of Schedule 1;”” 134: Schedule 6, page 129, line 3, at end insert— ““( ) A police and crime panel must, in co-opting persons who are members of relevant local authorities, secure that (as far is reasonably practicable) the balanced appointment objective is met. ( ) A police and crime panel— (a) must, from time to time, decide whether the panel’s exercise of the power conferred by paragraph 4(2B) or 13(2B) (changing the number of co-opted members of the panel) would enable the balanced appointment objective to be, or would contribute to that objective being, met or more effectively met; and (b) if the panel decides that the exercise of the power would do so, must exercise that power accordingly.”” 135: Schedule 6, page 129, line 5, leave out ““the appointed”” and insert ““local authority”” 136: Schedule 6, page 129, line 12, at end insert— ““( ) For that purpose ““local authority members”” means— (a) appointed members of the police and crime panel, and (b) co-opted members of the panel who are members of relevant local authorities.”” 137: Schedule 6, page 129, line 13, after ““members”” insert ““who are not members of relevant local authorities”” 138: Schedule 6, page 129, line 16, at end insert— ““Duty to nominate elected mayor to be a member of the panel ““31A(1) This paragraph applies if— (a) a local authority has a mayor and cabinet executive, and (b) the elected mayor of that executive is not a member of the relevant police and crime panel. (2) If the relevant local authority has power under paragraph 6(2), 7(2), 8(2) or (3) or 16(2) to nominate one or more of its councillors to be members of that panel, any exercise of that power must be such as to secure that the elected mayor is the councillor, or one of the councillors, so nominated. (3) If the Secretary of State is required by paragraph 10(2), 16(4)(b) or 18(2) to nominate one or more persons to be members of that panel, the Secretary of State must secure that the elected mayor is the person, or one of the persons, so nominated. (4) The duty in sub-paragraph (2) or (3) does not apply at a particular time if the person who holds office as the elected mayor at that time (the ““current mayor””)— (a) has, since the start of the current mayoral term, already been nominated to be a member of that panel (whether by the relevant local authority or the Secretary of State), and (b) did not become a member of that panel by virtue of the nomination. (5) But sub-paragraph (4) does not prevent the exercise of a power under this Schedule so as to make a further nomination of the current mayor to be a member of that panel. 31B (1) This paragraph applies if— (a) a local authority has a mayor and cabinet executive, (b) under paragraph 6(2), 7(2), 8(2) or (3) or 16(2) the local authority nominates the person who holds office as elected mayor of the executive at that time (the ““current mayor””) to be a member of the relevant police and crime panel, (c) that is the first such nomination of the current mayor since the start of the current mayoral term, and (d) the current mayor does not become a member of that panel by virtue of the nomination. (2) The Secretary of State may not, by virtue of that failure of the current mayor to become a member of the police and crime panel, nominate a person to be a member of that panel under paragraph 10(2) or 16(4)(b). 31C (1) This paragraph applies for the purposes of paragraphs 31A and 31B and this paragraph. (2) A reference to the start of the current mayoral term of a person who is the elected mayor of the executive of a local authority is a reference to the time when that person— (a) took office as elected mayor of that executive (if that person has been so elected on only one occasion), or (b) most recently took office as elected mayor of that executive (if that person has been so elected on two or more occasions). (3) The ““relevant police and crime panel””, in relation to a local authority, is the police and crime panel for the police area which covers that authority. (4) The expressions ““elected mayor”” and ““mayor and cabinet executive”” have the same meanings as in Part 2 of the Local Government Act 2000.”” Amendments 133 to 138 agreed.