27 Duty to promote and maintain high standards of conduct
Localism Act 2011 (2011 c 20) | Legislation

27  Duty to promote and maintain high standards of conduct

(1)     A relevant authority must promote and maintain high standards of conduct by members and co-opted members of the authority.

(2)     In discharging its duty under subsection (1), a relevant authority must, in particular, adopt a code dealing with the conduct that is expected of members and co-opted members of the authority when they are acting in that capacity.

(3)     A relevant authority that is a parish council—

(a)     may comply with subsection (2) by adopting the code adopted under that subsection by its principal authority, where relevant on the basis that references in that code to its principal authority's register are to its register, and

(b)     may for that purpose assume that its principal authority has complied with section 28(1) and (2).

(4)     In this Chapter “co-opted member”, in relation to a relevant authority, means a person who is not a member of the authority but who—

(a)     is a member of any committee or sub-committee of the authority, or

(b)     is a member of, and represents the authority on, any joint committee or joint sub-committee of the authority,

and

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