Part 9The Commission for Local Administration in England

I1169Responsibilities of Commissioners

1

Section 23 of the Local Government Act 1974 (appointment and removal of Commissioners) is amended as follows.

2

For subsections (8) and (9) (allocation of cases by geographic area) substitute—

8A

The Commission must—

a

divide the matters which may be investigated under this Part of this Act into such categories as they consider appropriate, and

b

allocate, or make arrangements for allocating, responsibility for each category of matter to one or more of the Local Commissioners.

3

In subsection (10)(a), for “to accept cases for which they are not responsible” substitute “ to deal with matters for which they do not have responsibility pursuant to subsection (8A) ”.