{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/relevant-authorities-standards-committee-regulations-2001/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/relevant-authorities-standards-committee-regulations-2001/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/2812",
  "legislation_title": "The Relevant Authorities (Standards Committee) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/relevant-authorities-standards-committee-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Size and composition of standards committees",
  "text": "(1) An authority must ensure that—\n(a) where its standards committee has more than three members, at least 25% are independent members; and\n(b) 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.\n(2) Where an authority is a responsible authority, it must ensure that—\n(a) 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\n(b) 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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/2812/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:31:04.878678+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."
}