The Relevant Authorities (Standards Committee) Regulations 2001

Application of the Local Government Act 1972

7.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), Part VA of the 1972 Act(1) shall apply in relation to meetings of a standards committee, or sub-committee of a standards committee, of an authority as it applies to meetings of a principal council.

(2) Sections 100E, 100G, 100J, and 100K of the 1972 Act shall not be so applied.

(3) Where a responsible authority must act in accordance with sections 100A(6)(a), 100B(1) or 100C(1) of the 1972 Act by virtue of paragraph (1), it shall also give to every parish council for which it is responsible—

(a) written notice of the time and place of the meeting at least three clear days before that meeting or, if the meeting is convened at shorter notice, then at the time it is convened;

(b) a copy of the agenda for a meeting and copies of any report for a meeting at least three clear days before the meeting, except that—

(i) where the meeting is convened at shorter notice, the copies of the agenda and reports shall be given to the parish council from the time the meeting is convened; and

(ii) where an item is added to an agenda, copies of which have been given to the parish council, copies of the item (or of the revised agenda), and the copies of any report for the meeting relating to the item shall be given to the parish council from the time the item is added to the agenda,

but nothing in this sub-paragraph requires copies of any agenda, item or report to be given to the parish council until copies are available to members of the responsible authority;

(c) after the meeting, a copy of the minutes excluding so much of the minutes of proceedings during which the meeting was not open to the public under section 100A(4) of the 1972 Act, or where applicable, a copy of a summary made under section 100C(2) of that Act;

(d) after the meeting, a copy of the agenda for the meeting; and

(e) after the meeting, a copy of so much of any report for the meeting as relates to any item during which the meeting was open to the public.

(1)

Part VA of the Local Government Act 1972 was inserted by the Local Government (Access to Information) Act 1985 c. 43.