# The Local Authorities (Committee System) (England) Regulations 2012, Regulation 10: Scrutiny officers

Extent: E+W

(1) 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).
(2) Those functions are—
(a) to promote the role of the local authority’s overview and scrutiny committee or committees;
(b) to provide support to the local authority’s overview and scrutiny committee or committees and the members of that committee or those committees;
(c) to provide support and guidance to—
(i) members of the local authority; and
(ii) officers of the local authority,
in relation to the functions of the local authority’s overview and scrutiny committee or committees.
(3) An officer designated by a local authority under this regulation is to be known as the authority’s “scrutiny officer”.
(4) A local authority may not designate any of the following under this regulation—
(a) the head of the authority’s paid service designated under section 4 of the 1989 Act;
(b) the authority’s monitoring officer designated under section 5 of that Act;
(c) the authority’s chief finance officer, within the meaning of section 5 of that Act.
(5) The duty in paragraph (1) does not apply to a district council for an area for which there is a county council.
(6) In this regulation, references to an overview and scrutiny committee include references to a sub-committee of such a committee.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1020/regulation/10 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-committee-system-england-regulations-2012/regulation-10
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