The Combined Authorities (Overview and Scrutiny Committees, Access to Information and Audit Committees) Order 2017

Overview and scrutiny committees

3.—(1) The majority of members of a combined authority’s overview and scrutiny committee must be members of that combined authority’s constituent councils.

(2) At least two-thirds of the total number of members of the overview and scrutiny committee must be present at a meeting of the overview and scrutiny committee before business may be transacted.

(3) 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.

(4) Members of the overview and scrutiny committee who are appointed other than from the constituent councils shall be non-voting members of the committee but may be given voting rights by resolution of the combined authority(1).

(5) Any questions that are to be decided by the overview and scrutiny committee are to be decided by a simple majority of the members present and voting on that question at a meeting of the overview and scrutiny committee.

(6) If a vote is tied on any matter it is deemed not to have been carried.

(7) In this article, references to an overview and scrutiny committee include references to a sub-committee of such a committee.

(1)

Paragraph 2(5) of Schedule 5A to the 2009 Act applies section 102 (2) to (5) of the Local Government Act 1972 to combined authorities.