PART 6OVERVIEW AND SCRUTINY
CHAPTER 2F1GOVERNANCE AND AUDIT COMMITTEES
I183Proceedings etc
1
F2A governance and audit committee is to appoint the person who is to chair the committee (who may be a member of the authority or a lay member but who must not be a member of an executive group).
2
If there are no opposition groups, the person who is to chair F4the governance and audit committee may be a member of an executive group but must not be a member of the local authority's executive.
3
All members of F5a governance and audit committee may vote on any question that falls to be decided by the committee.
4
F6A governance and audit committee of a local authority—
a
may require members and officers of the authority to attend before it to answer questions, and
b
may invite other persons to attend meetings of the committee.
5
It is the duty of any member or officer of a local authority to comply with any requirement imposed under subsection (4)(a).
6
A person is not obliged by subsection (5) to answer any question which the person would be entitled to refuse to answer in, or for the purposes of, proceedings in a court in England and Wales.
7
F3A governance and audit committee is to be treated as a committee of a principal council for the purposes of Part 5A of the Local Government Act 1972 (access to meetings and documents of certain authorities, committees and sub-committees).
8
For the purposes of subsections (1) and (2), the expressions “executive group” and “opposition group” have the same meaning as in section 75.
Words in Pt. 6 Ch. 2 title inserted (1.4.2021) by Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 (asc 1), s. 175(7), Sch. 10 para. 2; S.I. 2021/297, reg. 2(h)