Article 3 Overview and scrutiny committeesI1

The majority of members of a combined authority’s F1or, as the case may be, combined county authority’s, overview and scrutiny committee must be members of that combined authority’s or, as the case may be, combined county authority’s, constituent councils.

At least two-thirds of the total number of members of the overview and scrutiny committee must be present at a meeting of the overview and scrutiny committee before business may be transacted.

Each member of the overview and scrutiny committee appointed from the constituent councils is to have one vote and no member is to have a casting vote.

Members of the overview and scrutiny committee who are appointed other than from the constituent councils shall be non-voting members of the committee but may be given voting rights by resolution of the combined authority^f1 F2or, as the case may be, combined county authority.

Any questions that are to be decided by the overview and scrutiny committee are to be decided by a simple majority of the members present and voting on that question at a meeting of the overview and scrutiny committee.

If a vote is tied on any matter it is deemed not to have been carried.

In this article, references to an overview and scrutiny committee include references to a sub-committee of such a committee.