Decision details

Procedure for Local Standards Hearings

Decision Maker: Standards Committee, Council

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: No

Decision:

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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