Regulation 7 Joint Committees

Two or more local authorities may appoint a joint committee (a “joint overview and scrutiny committee”) of those authorities and arrange for relevant functions in relation to any (or all) of those authorities to be exercisable by the joint committee subject to such terms and conditions as the authorities may consider appropriate.

A joint overview and scrutiny committee may not discharge any functions other than relevant functions exercised by it by virtue of arrangements made under paragraph (1) above.

The provisions of section 21(6) to (15) of the 2000 Act shall apply to a joint overview and scrutiny committee as they apply to an overview and scrutiny committee within the meaning of section 21 of that Act, but subject to the modification that subsection (10) shall apply as though the words “subject to any provision made by or under paragraphs 7 to 9 of Schedule 1” were omitted.

Section 9 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Act shall apply to a joint overview and scrutiny committee.