Functions of the Standards CommitteeF17.

(1)

After receiving a report and any recommendations from a monitoring officer, or a report from the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales together with any recommendations of a monitoring officer, a Standards Committee must determine either:

(a)

that there is no evidence of any failure to comply with the code of conduct of the relevant authority concerned and give notice to that effect to:

(i)

the person who is the subject of the investigation;

F2(ia)

where the person who is the subject of the investigation is a member or co-opted member of a corporate joint committee and is also a member or co-opted member of—

(aa)

a constituent council of the corporate joint committee;

(bb)

a National Park authority which is required by regulations under Part 5 of the Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 to appoint a member of the corporate joint committee,

the monitoring officer of that constituent council or National Park authority;

(ii)

the person or persons making the allegation which gave rise to the investigation; and

(iii)

the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales; or

(b)

that a person who is the subject of the investigation must be invited to make representations, either orally or in writing, in respect of the findings of the investigation and of any allegation of a failure to comply with the relevant authority’s code of conduct.

(2)

A Standards Committee may make arrangements for the functions specified in paragraph (1) to be exercised by the Standards Committee of another relevant authority.