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

PART 1 General

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Combined Authorities (Overview and Scrutiny Committees, Access to Information and Audit Committees) Order 2017 and shall come into force on 8th May 2017.

Interpretation

2.—(1) In this Order—

“the 2009 Act” means the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009;

“excluded matter” means any matter which is a local crime and disorder matter within the meaning of section 19 of the Police and Justice Act 2006(1) or a matter of any description specified in an order made by the Secretary of State for the purposes of section 9FC of the Local Government Act 2000(2);

“mayor” means the mayor for the area of a combined authority established in an order made under section 107A of the 2009 Act;

“member” in relation to membership of an overview and scrutiny committee includes the chair of that overview and scrutiny committee;

“non constituent council” means a council designated as a non constituent council in an order made under section 103(1) of the 2009 Act;

“principal authority” means in the case of a parish council for an area in a district that has a district council, that district council, and in the case of a parish council for any other area, the county council for the county that includes that area; and

“proper officer” has the same meaning as in section 270(3) of the Local Government Act 1972(3).

(2) For the purposes of this Order a person (“R”) is a relative of another person if R is—

(a) the other person’s spouse or civil partner,

(b) living with the other person as husband and wife or as if they were civil partners,

(c) a grandparent of the other person,

(d) a lineal descendant of a grandparent of the other person,

(e) a parent, sibling or child of a person within paragraph (a) or (b),

(f) the spouse or civil partner of a person within paragraph (c), (d) or (e), or

(g) living with a person within paragraph (c), (d) or (e) as husband and wife or as if they were civil partners.

(1)

2006 c. 48. Section 19 was amended by section 126 of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (c. 28) and by paragraph 80 of Schedule 3 to and paragraph 1 of Part 4 of Schedule 25 to the Localism Act 2011 (c. 20).

(2)

2000 c. 22. Section 9FC was inserted by section 21 of and Schedule 2 to the Localism Act 2011.

(3)

c. 70. Section 270 was amended by paragraph 20 of Schedule 23 to the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 (c. 65), sections 1, 84 and 102 of, paragraph 34 of Schedule 14 to and paragraph 8 of Schedule 16 and Schedule 17 to the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51), sections 21, 23 and 27 of and paragraph 10 of Schedule 6 to the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Act 1988 (c. 4), section 4 of and paragraph 28 of Schedule 2 to Planning (Consequential Provisions) Act 1990 (c. 11), section 29 of and paragraph 1 of Schedule 4 to the Local Government Act 1992 (c. 19), section 46 of and paragraph 12 of Schedule 3 to the Local Government Act 2000, section 1 and paragraph 1 of Part 10 of Schedule 1 to the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), section 74 of and paragraph 10 of Schedule 3 to the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007, section 119 of and paragraph 38 of Schedule 6 to the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009, section 22 of and paragraph 6 of Schedule 3 to the Localism Act 2011, section 59 of and paragraph 6 of Schedule 13 to the Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20) and by section 23 of and paragraph 5 of Schedule 5 to the Cities and Local Government Devolution Act 2016.