Regulation 3 Size and composition of standards committees
An authority must ensure that—
where its standards committee has more than three members, at least 25% are independent members; and
where it is operating executive arrangements under Part II of the Act, no more than one member of its standards committee is a member of the executive.
Where an authority is a responsible authority, it must ensure that—
if its standards committee has appointed a sub-committee under section 55(3) of the Act, that standards committee includes at least one member of any of the parish councils for which the authority is the responsible authority; and
a member of its standards committee, or sub-committee of the standards committee, appointed under sub-paragraph (a), or under section 55(6)(a) or 55(7)(b) of the Act, is not also a member of that responsible authority.