Regulation 5 Amendment of regulation 4

In regulation 4 (modification of section 63 of the Local Government Act 2000) for paragraph (2) substitute the following paragraph—

“(2)

Section 63(1) of the Act shall be modified by the insertion, after paragraph (a), of the following paragraph—

“(aa)

the disclosure is made for any one or more of the following purposes—

(i)

enabling a monitoring officer, including any person nominated by a monitoring officer as his deputy for the purposes of section 5(7) of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 and any person nominated under the provisions of section 82A(2) or (3), to perform any of his functions under this Part, or under Regulations made under this Part, in connection with—

(a)

the investigation and consideration of an allegation of a breach of an authority’s code of conduct, or

(b)

any other steps he may be directed to take by an ethical standards officer in connection with an allegation of a breach of an authority’s code of conduct;

(ii)

enabling a standards committee or sub-committee of a standards committee established under this Part to perform any of its functions under this Part, or under Regulations made under this Part, in connection with the investigation and consideration of an allegation of a breach of an authority’s code of conduct; or

(iii)

enabling a tribunal drawn from members of the Adjudication Panel to consider any appeal from a finding of a standards committee or sub-committee of a standards committee established under this Part in connection with an allegation of a breach of an authority’s code of conduct.””.