Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023

Functions of overview and scrutiny committee

1 (1) A CCA must arrange for the appointment by the CCA of one or more committees of the authority (referred to in this Schedule as overview and scrutiny committees).

(2) The arrangements must ensure that the CCA’s overview and scrutiny committee has power (or its overview and scrutiny committees have power between them)—

(a) to review or scrutinise decisions made, or other action taken, in connection with the discharge of any functions which are the responsibility of the CCA;

(b) to make reports or recommendations to the CCA with respect to the discharge of any functions that are the responsibility of the CCA;

(c) to make reports or recommendations to the CCA on matters that affect the CCA’s area or the inhabitants of the area.

(3) If the CCA is a mayoral CCA, the arrangements must also ensure that the CCA’s overview and scrutiny committee has power (or its overview and scrutiny committees have power between them)—

(a) to review or scrutinise decisions made, or other action taken, in connection with the discharge by the mayor of any general functions;

(b) to make reports or recommendations to the mayor with respect to the discharge of any general functions;

(c) to make reports or recommendations to the mayor on matters that affect the CCA’s area or the inhabitants of the area.

(4) The power of an overview and scrutiny committee under sub-paragraph (2)(a) and (3)(a) to review or scrutinise a decision made but not implemented includes—

(a) power to direct that a decision is not to be implemented while it is under review or scrutiny by the overview and scrutiny committee, and

(b) power to recommend that the decision be reconsidered.

(5) An overview and scrutiny committee of a CCA must publish details of how it proposes to exercise its powers in relation to the review and scrutiny of decisions made but not yet implemented and its arrangements in connection with the exercise of those powers.

(6) Before complying with sub-paragraph (5) an overview and scrutiny committee must obtain the consent of the CCA to the proposals and arrangements.

(7) An overview and scrutiny committee of a CCA may not discharge any functions other than the functions conferred by or under this Schedule.

(8) Any reference in this Schedule to the discharge of any functions includes a reference to the doing of anything which is calculated to facilitate, or is conducive or incidental to, the discharge of those functions.