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On 3 March 2021, the then Minister for Housing and Local Government made the first Commencement Order in respect of the Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 (“the Act”). This Commencement Order included provision to bring the general power competence into force for eligible community councils on 5 May 2022\.


The conditions a community council must satisfy in order to resolve itself an ‘eligible community council’ are:


* At least two\-thirds of the total number of members of the council have been declared to be elected, whether at an ordinary election or at a by\-election.


* The clerk to the council holds such qualification or description of qualification as may be specified by the Welsh Ministers by regulations.


* The council has received unqualified auditor’s opinions from the Auditor General for Wales, for two consecutive financial years. The latest unqualified auditor’s opinion must have been received during the 12 months preceding the day on which the council’s resolution is passed.


Prior to the commencement of these provisions, certain Regulations need to be consulted upon and made.


As set out above, the Act includes a provision which enables the Welsh Ministers to specify, in regulations, the qualifications or description of qualifications that the clerk to a community council must hold in order for the community council to meet the second of the three eligibility conditions to become an ‘eligible community council’.


Today, I am launching a consultation on the draft Eligible Community Councils (General Power of Competence) (Qualifications of Clerks) (Wales) Regulations 2021 which set out the qualifications that a clerk must hold for a community council to satisfy the second eligibility condition.


View the consultation document and draft Regulations.


The consultation runs until 24 September 2021\.







Translation:


 
Ar 3 Mawrth 2021, cafodd y Gorchymyn Cychwyn cyntaf mewn perthynas â Deddf Llywodraeth Leol ac Etholiadau (Cymru) 2021 (“y Ddeddf”) ei wneud gan y Gweinidog Tai a Llywodraeth Leol ar y pryd. Roedd y Gorchymyn Cychwyn hwn yn cynnwys darpariaeth i ddod â’r pŵer cymhwysedd cyffredinol i rym ar gyfer cynghorau cymuned cymwys ar 5 Mai 2022\.


Mae ‘cyngor cymuned cymwys’ yn gyngor cymuned sy'n bodloni'r meini prawf cymhwystra a nodir yn adran 30 o Ddeddf 2021, neu mewn rheoliadau a wnaed gan Weinidogion Cymru o dan adran 35 o Ddeddf 2021, ac yn pasio penderfyniad ei fod yn bodloni'r meini prawf.


Mae'r amodau y mae'n rhaid i gyngor cymuned eu bodloni er mwyn pasio penderfyniad ei fod yn ‘gyngor cymuned cymwys’ fel a ganlyn:


* Datganwyd bod o leiaf ddau draean o gyfanswm aelodau'r cyngor wedi'u hethol, boed mewn etholiad cyffredin neu mewn isetholiad.


* Mae clerc y cyngor yn dal unrhyw gymhwyster neu ddisgrifiad o gymhwyster o fath a bennir gan Weinidogion Cymru drwy reoliadau.


* Mae'r cyngor wedi cael barn archwilio ddiamod gan Archwilydd Cyffredinol Cymru, am ddwy flwyddyn ariannol yn olynol. Mae'n rhaid i'r farn archwilio ddiamod ddiweddaraf fod wedi'i chael yn ystod y 12 mis cyn y diwrnod y cafodd penderfyniad y cyngor ei basio.


Cyn cychwyn y darpariaethau hyn, rhaid ymgynghori ar Reoliadau penodol a gwneud y Rheoliadau hynny.


Fel y nodir uchod, mae’r Ddeddf yn cynnwys darpariaeth sy’n galluogi Gweinidogion Cymru i bennu, mewn rheoliadau, y cymwysterau neu ddisgrifiad o’r cymwysterau y mae’n rhaid i glerc cyngor cymuned feddu arnynt er mwyn i’r cyngor cymuned fodloni’r ail o’r tri amod cymhwystra i fod yn ‘gyngor cymuned cymwys’.


Heddiw, rwy’n lansio ymgynghoriad ar fersiwn ddrafft o Reoliadau Cynghorau Cymuned Cymwys (Pŵer Cymhwysedd Cyffredinol) (Cymwysterau Clercod) (Cymru) 2021, sy’n nodi’r cymwysterau y mae’r rhaid i glerc feddu arnynt er mwyn i gyngor cymuned fodloni’r ail amod cymhwystra.


Mae’r ddogfen ymgynghori a’r Rheoliadau drafft ar gael drwy’r ddolen ganlynol: Rheoliadau cymwysterau clercod cynghorau cymuned.


Mae’r ymgynghoriad yn agored tan 24 Medi 2021\.