# Local Government Act 2000, Section 54A: Sub-committees of standards committees

Extent: E+W

(1) A standards committee of a relevant authority may appoint one or more sub-committees for the purpose of discharging any of the committee’s functions, whether or not to the exclusion of the committee.
(1A) Subsection (1) does not apply to a standards committee established by a corporate joint committee.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to functions under section ...56.
(3) A sub-committee under subsection (1) shall be appointed from among the members of the standards committee by which it is appointed ....
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(5) As regards sub-committees appointed under subsection (1) by a standards committee of a relevant authority ...—
(a) regulations under section 53(11) may make provision in relation to such sub-committees, and
(b) section 54(5) and (7) apply in relation to such sub-committees as they apply in relation to standards committees.
(6) Subject to ... any provision made by regulations under section 53(11)(a) (as applied by this section)—
(a) the number of members of a sub-committee under subsection (1), and
(b) the term of office of those members,
are to be fixed by the standards committee by which the sub-committee is appointed.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/22/section/54A (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-2000/section-54A
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