{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-committee-system-england-regulations-2012/regulation-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-committee-system-england-regulations-2012/regulation-11.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/1020",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (Committee System) (England) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-committee-system-england-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Voting rights of co-opted members",
  "text": "(1) A local authority may permit a co-opted member of an overview and scrutiny committee of the authority to vote at meetings of the committee.\n(2) Permission under paragraph (1) may only be given in accordance with a scheme made by the local authority.\n(3) A scheme for the purposes of this regulation may include—\n(a) provision for a maximum or minimum in relation to the number of co-opted members of an overview and scrutiny committee entitled to vote at meetings of the committee; and\n(b) provision for giving effect to any maximum or minimum established under sub-paragraph (a).\n(4) The power to make a scheme for the purposes of this regulation includes power to vary or revoke such a scheme.\n(5) Paragraph 12 of Schedule A1 to the 2000 Act applies to a committee system local authority as it applies to a local authority operating executive arrangements.\n(6) In this regulation, references to a co-opted member, in relation to an overview and scrutiny committee of a local authority, are to a member of the committee who is not a member of the authority.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 11 in force at 4.5.2012, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1020/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:34:32.579555+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}