The Greater London Authority Act 1999 (Commencement No. 6 and Preliminary Arrangements for the Metropolitan Police Authority) Order 2000

First meeting held before 3rd July 2000

6.—(1) Arrangements shall be made by the clerk to the Metropolitan Police Authority for the public and the press to be admitted to the meeting.

(2) No business shall be transacted at the meeting unless at least one quarter of the whole number of members of the Metropolitan Police Authority are present.

(3) Arrangements may be made by the clerk to the Metropolitan Police Authority for the exclusion of a member of that Authority from the meeting while any contract, proposed contract, or other matter in which he has a pecuniary interest, direct or indirect, is under consideration.

(4) Arrangements may be made at the meeting as to the matters specified in the Schedule to this Order.

(5) In addition to the matters specified in the Schedule to this Order the following powers may be exercised at the first meeting:

(a) the designation of a monitoring officer for the Metropolitan Police Authority in accordance with section 5(1) of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989(1);

(b) the appointment of a clerk to the Metropolitan Police Authority in accordance with section 16 of the 1996 Act(2);

(c) the appointment of a chief finance officer to the Metropolitan Police Authority in accordance with section 127(2) of the 1999 Act;

(d) the making of standing orders in accordance with paragraph 42 of Schedule 12 to the Local Government Act 1972;

(e) the making of delegations in accordance with section 101 of the Local Government Act 1972.

(6) Arrangements made or powers exercised in pursuance of this article shall be regarded as being made or exercised by the Metropolitan Police Authority.

(7) In paragraphs (1) and (3) of this article “the clerk to the Metropolitan Police Authority” means the person who is, by virtue of his appointment under section 407 of the 1999 Act, for the time being the clerk to that Authority.

(1)

1989 c. 42; section 5(1) is amended by paragraph 62 of Schedule 27 to the 1999 Act.

(2)

Section 16 is amended by paragraph 75 of Schedule 27 to the 1999 Act.