F1PART 1AArrangements with respect to local authority governance in England
CHAPTER 2Executive arrangements
Overview and scrutiny committees
9FEF1Duty of authority or executive to respond to overview and scrutiny committee
(1)
This section applies where an overview and scrutiny committee of a local authority makes a report or recommendations to the authority or the executive, otherwise than—
(a)
by virtue of subsection (1)(b) of section 19 of the Police and Justice Act 2006 (local authority scrutiny of crime and disorder matters), or
(b)
by virtue of subsection (3)(a) of that section.
(2)
The overview and scrutiny committee may publish the report or recommendations.
(3)
The overview and scrutiny committee must by notice in writing require the authority or executive—
(a)
to consider the report or recommendations,
(b)
to respond to the overview and scrutiny committee indicating what (if any) action the authority, or the executive, proposes to take,
(c)
if the overview and scrutiny committee has published the report or recommendations under subsection (2), to publish the response, and
(d)
if the overview and scrutiny committee provided a copy of the report or recommendations to a member of the authority under section 9FD(4), to provide the member with a copy of the response.
(4)
The notice served under subsection (3) must require the authority or executive to comply with it within two months beginning with the date on which the authority or executive received the report or recommendations or (if later) the notice.
(5)
It is the duty of an authority or executive to which a notice is given under subsection (3) to comply with the requirements specified in the notice.
(6)
Subsections (2) and (5) are subject to section 9FG and to any provision made under section 9GA(8) (confidential and exempt information).
(7)
In this section—
(a)
references to an overview and scrutiny committee include references to a sub-committee of such a committee;
(b)
references to “the authority” or “the executive”, in relation to an overview and scrutiny committee, or a sub-committee of such a committee, are to the authority by which the overview and scrutiny committee is established or to the executive of that authority.