Council RESOLVED that the Procedure for local Standards Committee Hearings, attached to the Agenda, be approved and incorporated into the Constitution.
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.
DEFERRED |
consideration of the procedure for local standards hearings to an extra-ordinary meeting to be held before the end of October 2006. |