Section 82 MembershipI1

A local authority is to appoint the members of its F1governance and audit committee.

A local authority must secure that—

Subsection (2)(c) does not require the membership of a local authority's F9governance and audit committee to include a member of the authority's executive F10or an assistant to its executive.

The appointment of a person as a member of F11a governance and audit committee has no effect if the membership of the committee breaches subsection (2) immediately after the appointment (whether or not by virtue of the appointment).

In a case where one or more persons are to become, or to cease to be, members of F12a governance and audit committee at a particular time, all those changes of membership are to be taken into account in determining whether the membership of the committee breaches subsection (2).

A governance and audit committee is to appoint—

The member appointed as the committee chair must be a lay person.

The member appointed as the deputy chair must not be a member of the local authority's executive or an assistant to its executive.

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F16A governance and audit committee is to be treated as a body to which section 15 of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (duty to allocate seats to political groups) applies.

If two or more members of a local authority are appointed to the executive to share office, more than one of those members may be appointed to its governance and audit committee (and if they are so appointed, together they count as one executive member for the purposes of subsection (2)(c)).