Version Superseded: 31/01/2012
Point in time view as at 10/07/2011. This version of this provision has been superseded.
Local Government Act 2000, Section 80 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 08 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
(1)[F2Where the First-tier Tribunal or a case tribunal has adjudicated on any matter under this Act, it] may make recommendations to a relevant authority about any matters relating to—
(a)the exercise of the authority’s functions,
(b)the authority’s code of conduct, or
(c)the authority’s standards committee.
(2)[F3The tribunal concerned] must send a copy of any recommendations it makes under subsection (1) to the relevant person.
(3)A relevant authority to whom recommendations are made under subsection (1) must consider the recommendations and, within a period of three months beginning with the day on which the recommendations are received, prepare a report for the relevant person giving details of what action the authority have taken or are proposing to take as a result of the recommendations.
(4)A relevant authority’s function of considering a report under subsection (3) may be discharged only by the authority or by the standards committee of that authority (and accordingly, in the case of a relevant authority to which section 101 of the M1Local Government Act 1972 applies, is not to be a function to which that section applies).
(5)If the relevant person is not satisfied with the action the relevant authority have taken or propose to take in relation to the recommendations, the relevant person may require the authority to publish a statement giving details of the recommendations made by the tribunal and of the authority’s reasons for not fully implementing the recommendations.
(6)In this section “the relevant person” means—
(a)the Standards Board for England where the relevant authority concerned is in England,
(b)[F4the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales] where the relevant authority concerned is in Wales.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 80 heading inserted (18.1.2010) by The Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/22), art. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 63(a) (with Sch. 5)
F2Words in s. 80(1) substituted (18.1.2010) by The Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/22), art. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 63(b) (with Sch. 5)
F3Words in s. 80(2) inserted (18.1.2010) by The Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/22), art. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 63(c) (with Sch. 5)
F4Words in s. 80(6)(b) substituted (1.4.2006) by Public Services Ombudsman (Wales) Act 2005 (c. 10), s. 40, Sch. 4 para. 21; S.I. 2005/2800, art. 5(1)(3) (with transitional provisions in S.I. 2006/362, art. 4)
Commencement Information
I1S. 80 wholly in force at 28.7.2001; s. 80 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 108; s. 80 in force at 19.12.2000 in relation to England and to police authorities in Wales by S.I. 2000/3335, art. 2; s. 80 in force at 28.7.2001 in so far as not already in force see s. 108(4)-(6)
Marginal Citations
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