4.—(1) The Combined Authority shall appoint one or more committees as an overview and scrutiny committee, or as the case may be committees, of the Combined Authority.
(2) The Combined Authority shall appoint at least one member of each of the constituent councils to each overview and scrutiny committee appointed by the Combined Authority.
(3) An overview and scrutiny committee appointed by the Combined Authority may not include any member or substitute member of the Combined Authority.
(4) Each member of the overview and scrutiny committee appointed from the constituent councils is to have one vote and no member is to have a casting vote.
(5) If a vote is tied on any matter it shall be deemed not to have been carried.
(6) An overview and scrutiny committee appointed by the Combined Authority shall have the power to—
(a)invite members or substitute members of the Combined Authority to attend before it to answer questions;
(b)invite other persons, including members of the public, to attend meetings of the committee;
(c)review or scrutinise decisions made, or other action taken, in connection with the discharge of any functions which are the responsibility of the Combined Authority;
(d)make reports or recommendations to the Combined Authority with respect to the discharge of any functions which are the responsibility of the Combined Authority.
(7) The power to review or scrutinise a decision made but not implemented under sub-paragraph (6)(c) includes the power to recommend that the decision be reconsidered by the Combined Authority.
(8) Where an overview and scrutiny committee appointed by the Combined Authority makes a report or recommendation under sub-paragraph (6)(d) the committee may—
(a)publish the report or recommendations;
(b)by notice in writing require the Combined Authority to—
(i)consider the report or recommendations;
(ii)respond to the overview and scrutiny committee indicating what (if any) action the Combined Authority proposes to take;
(iii)if the overview and scrutiny committee has published the report or recommendations under paragraph (a), publish the response.
(9) A notice served under sub-paragraph (8)(b) must require the Combined Authority to comply with it within two months beginning with the date on which the Combined Authority received the reports or recommendations or (if later) the notice.
(10) The Combined Authority shall comply with a notice given under sub-paragraph (8)(b).
(11) Sub-paragraphs (8)(a) and (10) are subject to section 9FG of the Local Government Act 2000(1) and to any provision made under section 9GA(8) and the Combined Authority shall be treated as a local authority for these purposes.
2000 c. 22. Sections 9FG and 9GA were inserted by the Localism Act 2011 (c. 20), section 21 and Schedule 2.