# The Combined Authorities (Overview and Scrutiny Committees, Access to Information and Audit Committees) Order 2017, Article 15: Payment of audit committee members


(1) A combined authority or, as the case may be, a combined county authority, may pay an allowance to a member of a constituent council who is appointed to the audit committee of that authority.
(2) Any such allowance may only be paid after the authority has considered a report published by an independent remuneration panel containing recommendations for the payment of allowances to members of the audit committee, and any allowance paid must not exceed the amount recommended by that panel.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/68/article/15 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/combined-authorities-overview-and-scrutiny-committees-access-to-information-and-audit-committees-order-2017/article-15
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