Decision Maker: Standards Committee, Council
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: No
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.
Report author: Fiona McMillan
Publication date: 10/11/2006
Date of decision: 08/11/2006
Decided at meeting: 08/11/2006 - Standards Committee
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