{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-standing-orders-wales-amendment-regulations-2014/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-standing-orders-wales-amendment-regulations-2014/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2014/1514",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (Standing Orders) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-standing-orders-wales-amendment-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Local Authorities (Standing Orders) (Wales) Regulations 2006",
  "text": "In regulation 9 (investigation of alleged misconduct)—\n(a) for paragraph (1) substitute—\n“(1) Where, after a relevant authority has incorporated provisions in standing orders pursuant to regulation 8, it appears to the relevant authority that an allegation of misconduct which may lead to disciplinary action has been made against a relevant officer, the relevant authority must appoint a committee (“an investigation committee”) to consider the alleged misconduct.\n(1A) For the purposes of this regulation “a relevant officer” (“swyddog perthnasol”) is—\n(a) the head of the authority’s paid service;\n(b) its monitoring officer;\n(c) its chief finance officer;\n(d) its head of democratic services; or\n(e) an officer who was, but at the time the investigation committee is appointed no longer is, an officer referred to in sub-paragraphs (a) to (d) where the alleged misconduct occurred during the period when the officer was an officer referred to in those sub-paragraphs.”;\n(b) in paragraph (5)(b) for “National Assembly for Wales” substitute “Welsh Ministers”; and\n(c) omit paragraph (11).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 in force at 1.7.2014, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2014/1514/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:38:21.401491+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."
}