The Combined Authorities (Overview and Scrutiny Committees, Access to Information and Audit Committees) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 No. 430

PART 2 Amendment of the Combined Authorities (Overview and Scrutiny Committees, Access to Information and Audit Committees) Order 2017

New article 10A

12.  After article 10 (additional rights of access to documents for members of overview and scrutiny committees) insert—

“Payment of overview and scrutiny committee members

10A.— (1) A combined authority or, as the case may be, a combined county authority, may pay an allowance to a member of a constituent council who is appointed to an overview and scrutiny committee of that authority.

(2) Any such allowance may only be paid after the authority has considered a report published by an independent remuneration panel containing recommendations for the payment of allowances to members of an overview and scrutiny committee, and any allowance paid must not exceed the amount recommended by that panel.

(3) In this article references to an overview and scrutiny committee include references to any sub-committee of such a committee.”.