PART 6OVERVIEW AND SCRUTINY

CHAPTER 2F1GOVERNANCE AND AUDIT COMMITTEES

Annotations:

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.