PART 3PROCEDURES RELATING TO ALLEGATIONS

Application of section 63 of the Local Government Act 2000 with modification12

1

Subsection (1) of section 63 of the Act (restrictions on disclosure of information) shall apply in respect of information obtained by monitoring officers in the performance of any of their functions under Part 3 of the Act and regulations made under that Part, as they apply in respect of information obtained by ethical standards officers under sections 61 and 62 of the Act, subject to the modification set out below.

2

The modification is the insertion, after paragraph (a), of the following paragraph—

aa

the disclosure is made for any one or more of the following purposes—

i

enabling a standards committee or sub-committee of a standards committee established under this Part to perform any of its functions under this Part, or under regulations made under this Part, in connection with the investigation and consideration of an alleged breach of an authority’s code of conduct; or

ii

enabling a tribunal drawn from members of the Adjudication Panel to consider any appeal from a finding of a standards committee or sub-committee of a standards committee established under this Part in connection with an alleged breach of an authority’s code of conduct.