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Regulation 7 Amendment to direction

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(1)

Where—

(a)

the Standards Board has served a direction under section 57D(1) of the Act on a specified authority in accordance with regulation 6(1), and

(b)

that direction has not been revoked,

the Standards Board may serve a further direction on the authority in writing specifying a different body to deal with the initial assessment of any written allegations received by the standards committee.

(2)

The Standards Board shall send a copy of any direction served under paragraph (1) to the chair of the standards committee and to the monitoring officer of the specified authority concerned, and to the chair of the standards committee of any other authority which is referred to in the direction.

(3)

A direction under paragraph (1) shall specify the date from which allegations made to the standards committee of the authority must be sent to the different body.