Part III Conduct of local government members and employees
Chapter IV Adjudications
Adjudications
80 Recommendations by F1... case tribunals.
(1)
F2Where F3... 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)
F4A case tribunal 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 F5Public Services Ombudsman for Wales 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 F6or regulation 13 of the Corporate Joint Committees (General) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2021 (arrangements for discharge of functions) applies, is not to be a function to which F7that section or regulation applies).
(5)
If the F8Public Services Ombudsman for Wales is not satisfied with the action the relevant authority have taken or propose to take in relation to the recommendations, the F8Public Services Ombudsman for Wales 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.
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