Issue - decisions

Procedure for Local Standards Hearings

27/01/2007 - Procedure for local Standards Hearings (Standards Committee 8 November 2006, Constitution Review Working Party, 12 January 2007)

Council RESOLVED that the Procedure for local Standards Committee Hearings, attached to the Agenda, be approved and incorporated into the Constitution.


10/11/2006 - Procedure for Local Standards Hearings

With no members voting against, the Standards Committee RECOMMENDED TO COUNCIL that the revised Procedure for Local Standards Hearings be adopted, replacing the existing Local Standards Hearings Procedure at Part 5 Section M of the Constitution, subject to the following amendments:

(a)               Paragraph 1(a), first sentence: “’Councillor’ is to be taken to refer to the elected or co-opted member of the authority or to the parish councillor who is the subject of the allegation being considered by the Standards Committee, unless stated otherwise.”;

(b)               Paragraph 1(b), final sentence: “…(which may be the Monitoring Officer, and or his or her nominated representative).”;

(c)               Paragraph 9(b), first sentence: “The Chairman will ask the legal advisor Monitoring Officer or the Democratic Services Officer to present his report…”;

(d)               Paragraph 9(b), footnote 9: add “continued overleaf”;

(e)               Paragraph 9(c)(iii), final line: “…the Standards Committee should seek the advice of the Investigating Officer or the witness.”; and

(f)                 To remove the division between the procedure following an ESO’s report and those which follow a local investigation.


11/08/2006 - Procedure for Local Standards Hearings

DEFERRED

consideration of the procedure for local standards hearings to an extra-ordinary meeting to be held before the end of October 2006.