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Local Government Act 2000

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(1)Where an ethical standards officer determines in relation to any case that a finding under section 59(4)(a) or (b) is appropriate—

(a)he may produce a report on the outcome of his investigation,

(b)he may provide a summary of any such report to any newspapers circulating in the area of the relevant authority concerned,

(c)he must send to the monitoring officer of the relevant authority concerned a copy of any such report, and

(d)where he does not produce any such report, he must inform the monitoring officer of the relevant authority concerned of the outcome of the investigation.

(2)Where an ethical standards officer determines in relation to any case that a finding under section 59(4)(c) is appropriate he must—

(a)produce a report on the outcome of his investigation,

(b)subject to subsection (4)(b), refer the matters which are the subject of the investigation to the monitoring officer of the relevant authority concerned, and

(c)send a copy of the report to the monitoring officer, and the standards committee, of the relevant authority concerned.

(3)Where an ethical standards officer determines in relation to any case that a finding under section 59(4)(d) is appropriate he must—

(a)produce a report on the outcome of his investigation,

(b)refer the matters which are the subject of the investigation to the president of the Adjudication Panel for England for adjudication by a tribunal falling within section 76(1), and

(c)send a copy of the report to the monitoring officer of the relevant authority concerned and to the president of the Adjudication Panel for England.

(4)Where a person is no longer a member or co-opted member of the relevant authority concerned but is a member or co-opted member of another relevant authority in England—

(a)the references in subsections (1)(b), (c) and (d), (2)(c) and (3)(c) to the relevant authority concerned are to be treated as including references to that other relevant authority, and

(b)an ethical standards officer who reaches a finding under section 59(4)(c) must refer the matters concerned either to the monitoring officer of the relevant authority concerned or to the monitoring officer of that other relevant authority.

(5)A report under this section may cover more than one investigation under section 59 in relation to any members or co-opted members (or former members or co-opted members) of the same relevant authority.

(6)An ethical standards officer must—

(a)inform any person who is the subject of an investigation under section 59, and

(b)take reasonable steps to inform any person who made any allegation which gave rise to the investigation,

of the outcome of the investigation.

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