113 Standards committees and monitoring officers: delegation
Local Government Act 2003 (2003 c 26) | Legislation

113  Standards committees and monitoring officers: delegation

(1)     In Chapter 1 of Part 3 of the Local Government Act 2000 (conduct of local government members), after section 54 there is inserted—

“54A Sub-committees of standards committees

(1)     A standards committee of a relevant authority may appoint one or more sub-committees for the purpose of discharging any of the committee's functions, whether or not to the exclusion of the committee.

(2)     Subsection (1) does not apply to functions under section 55 or 56.

(3)     A sub-committee under subsection (1) shall be appointed from among the members of the standards committee by which it is appointed.

(4)     As regards sub-committees appointed under subsection (1) by a standards committee of a relevant authority in England or of a police authority in Wales—

(a)     regulations under section 53(6)(a) and (c) to (g) may make provision in relation to such sub-committees, and

(b)     sections 53(7), (8) and (10) and 54(4) and (6) apply in relation to such sub-committees

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