The Tees Valley Combined Authority Order 2016

Committees

4.—(1) The Combined Authority must appoint at least three members of each of the constituent councils to the overview and scrutiny committee appointed by the Combined Authority, so that the members of the committee taken as a whole reflect so far as reasonably practicable the balance of political parties for the time being prevailing among members of the constituent councils.

(2) An overview and scrutiny committee appointed by the Combined Authority may not include any substitute member of the Combined Authority.

(3) No business is to be transacted at a meeting of the overview and scrutiny committee unless at least seven members from at least three constituent councils are present at the meeting.

(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 is deemed not to have been carried.

(6) The Combined Authority must appoint an appropriate person(1) who is a member of one of the constituent councils to be the chair of the overview and scrutiny committee appointed by the Combined Authority.

(7) Where an overview and scrutiny committee appointed by the Combined Authority makes a report or recommendation under paragraph 1(2)(b) of Schedule 5A to the 2009 Act 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; and

(iii) if the overview and scrutiny committee has published the report or recommendations under paragraph (a), publish the response.

(8) A notice served under sub-paragraph (7)(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.

(9) The Combined Authority must comply with a notice given under sub-paragraph (7)(b).

(10) Sub-paragraphs (7)(a) and (9) are subject to section 9FG of the Local Government Act 2000(2) and to any provision made under section 9GA(8) and the Combined Authority is to be treated as a local authority for these purposes.

(1)

See paragraph 3(5) of Schedule 5A to the 2009 Act

(2)

2000 c. 22. Sections 9FG and 9GA were inserted by the Localism Act 2011 (c. 20), section 21 and Schedule 2.