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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The Combined Authorities (Overview and Scrutiny Committees, Access to Information and Audit Committees) Order 2017 No. 68
9.—(1) A combined authority must designate one of its officers as the scrutiny officer of the overview and scrutiny committee to discharge the functions in paragraph (2).
(2) Those functions are—
(a)to promote the role of the overview and scrutiny committee;
(b)to provide support and guidance to the overview and scrutiny committee and its members;
(c)to provide support and guidance to members of the combined authority and to the mayor in relation to the functions of the overview and scrutiny committee.
(3) A combined authority may not designate as the scrutiny officer any officer of a constituent council of the combined authority.
(4) In this article, references to an overview and scrutiny committee include references to a sub-committee of such a committee.
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