The North Wales Corporate Joint Committee Regulations 2021

Governance and Audit Sub-Committee

16.—(1) The North Wales CJC must establish a sub-committee (known as the governance and audit sub-committee) to—

(a) review and scrutinise the North Wales CJC’s financial affairs;

(b) make reports and recommendations in relation to the North Wales CJC’s financial affairs;

(c) review and assess the risk management, internal control and corporate governance arrangements of the North Wales CJC;

(d) make reports and recommendations to the North Wales CJC on the adequacy and effectiveness of those arrangements;

(e) oversee the North Wales CJC’s internal and external audit arrangements;

(f) review any financial statements prepared by the North Wales CJC;

(g) exercise such other functions as the North Wales CJC may specify.

(2) When appointing members of the governance and audit sub-committee, the North Wales CJC must ensure that—

(a) at least one member of the sub-committee is a person who is not a member of a county council, or county borough council, in Wales,

(b) at least two-thirds of the membership is constituted by members of the constituent councils (but not members of the constituent councils’ executives), and

(c) none of the members of the sub-committee are—

(i) council members,

(ii) co-opted participants, or

(iii) members of the constituent councils’ executives.

(3) In sub-paragraph (2), “co-opted participant” means a person co-opted—

(a) as a member of a sub-committee other than the governance and audit sub-committee, or

(b) to participate in activities of the North Wales CJC other than the activities of the governance and audit sub-committee.

(4) The governance and audit sub-committee may not exercise its functions if the membership of the sub-committee contravenes the requirements of sub-paragraph (2).

(5) The standing orders must include provision regulating the manner in which the governance and audit sub-committee exercises its functions.