Regulation 10 Scrutiny officersI1
England and Wales
Subject as follows, where a local authority resolves to appoint one or more committees as its overview and scrutiny committee, it must designate one of its officers to discharge the functions in paragraph (2).
Those functions are—
to promote the role of the local authority’s overview and scrutiny committee or committees;
to provide support to the local authority’s overview and scrutiny committee or committees and the members of that committee or those committees;
to provide support and guidance to—
members of the local authority; and
officers of the local authority,
in relation to the functions of the local authority’s overview and scrutiny committee or committees.
An officer designated by a local authority under this regulation is to be known as the authority’s “scrutiny officer”.
A local authority may not designate any of the following under this regulation—
the head of the authority’s paid service designated under section 4 of the 1989 Actf1;
the authority’s monitoring officer designated under section 5 of that Actf2;
the authority’s chief finance officer, within the meaning of section 5 of that Actf3.
The duty in paragraph (1) does not apply to a district council for an area for which there is a county council.
In this regulation, references to an overview and scrutiny committee include references to a sub-committee of such a committee.
Annotations
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Footnotes
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Section 4 was amended by section 119 of, and Schedule 6 to, the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009.
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Section 5 was amended by section S.I. 2001/2237 (in relation to England); section 107 of, and Schedule 5 to, the 2000 Act; section 52 of, and Schedule 14 to, the Police and Justice Act 2006.
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Section 5(8) was amended by S.I. 2001/2237; section 132 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999 (c.29); section 321 of, and Schedule 22 to, the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (c.23).