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members of their local county association and the national association. Each county association appoints one representative from their member councils to sit on National Council. The representative must be an elected councillor. Each National Council representative is responsible for ensuring the views of councils in their county area are voiced, and decisions made at national council are communicated back via their county association structure.</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Arial">National Council makes decisions only in the interests of the NALC as a whole. National Council shall accept, consider and determine views, and report back motions or proposals submitted to it by county associations or by way of its committees.</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Arial">National Council is empowered to create committees, and delegate powers to them as is appropriate. </font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Arial">Current standing committees are</font></p> <ul> <li> <p><font size="2" face="Arial">Executive Committee</font></p> </li> <li> <p><font size="2" face="Arial">Finance Committee</font></p> </li> <li> <p><font size="2" face="Arial">Policy Committee</font></p> </li> <li> <p><font size="2" face="Arial">Larger Local Councils Committee</font></p> </li> </ul> <p><font size="2" face="Arial">National Council and all of the committees meet on a quarterly cycle.<br/> <br/> To download a copy of the National Association’s Code of Policy, please <a target="_self" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101015112530/http://www.nalc.gov.uk/Document/Download.aspx?uid=e96c1044-404f-4ed9-8683-ec50699d826f"><strong>click here</strong></a></font></p> <div id="ctl00_docscontainer"> <div id="docs"> <img src="/web/20101015112530im_/http://www.nalc.gov.uk/Resource/Icon/doc.gif" alt="Download"/> <a href="/web/20101015112530/http://www.nalc.gov.uk/Document/Download.aspx?uid=637a589a-1510-4017-afca-e493c5b46aa0">Committee Structure (Committee Structure.doc)</a><br/><img src="/web/20101015112530im_/http://www.nalc.gov.uk/Resource/Icon/doc.gif" alt="Download"/> <a href="/web/20101015112530/http://www.nalc.gov.uk/Document/Download.aspx?uid=6f5c4fa7-8848-4990-89dd-9573e300f22c">NALC Constitution (Constitution-Handbook Copy 2009.doc)</a><br/> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> </div> <div id="prefooter"/> <div id="footer"> <a href="#top" title="Page Top">Page Top</a> </div> </div> </body> </html>