Regulation 7 Duty of local authority to respond to overview and scrutiny committeeI1
England and Wales
This regulation applies where an overview and scrutiny committee makes a report or recommendation otherwise than—
by virtue of subsection (1)(b) of section 19 of the 2006 Act; or
by virtue of subsection (3)(a) of that section.
The overview and scrutiny committee may publish the report or recommendations.
The overview and scrutiny committee must by notice in writing require the local authority—
to consider the report or recommendations;
to respond to the overview and scrutiny committee indicating what (if any) action the local authority proposes to take; and
if the overview and scrutiny committee has published the report or recommendations under paragraph (2), to publish the response.
The notice served under paragraph (3) must require the authority to comply with it within two months beginning with the date on which the local authority received the report or recommendations or (if later) the notice.
It is the duty of a local authority to which a notice is given under paragraph (3) to comply with the requirements specified in the notice.
Paragraphs (2) and (5) are subject to regulation 8.
In this regulation—
“the local authority” means the local authority or a committee or sub-committee of the local authority, or a joint committee on which the local authority is represented or any sub-committee of such a committee, to whom the report or recommendations are made; and
references to an overview and scrutiny committee include references to a sub-committee of such a committee.