Local Government Investigations (Functions of Monitoring Officers and Standards Committees)(Wales) Regulations 2001

Publication

13.—(1) A Standards Committee must cause to be produced within 14 days after:

(a) the expiry of the time allowed to lodge a notice of appeal under Regulation 10(2) above,

(b) receipt of notification of the conclusion of any appeal in accordance with Regulation 12(a)(i) or (b) above, or

(c) a further determination by the Standards Committee made after receiving a recommendation from an appeals tribunal under Regulation 12(a)(ii) above,

whichever occurs last, a report on the outcome of the investigation and send a copy to the Local Commissioner in Wales, the monitoring officer of the relevant authority concerned, any person subject to the investigation and take reasonable steps to send a copy to any person who made any allegation which gave rise to the investigation.

(2) Upon receipt of the report of the Standards Committee, the monitoring officer of the relevant authority shall:

(a) for a period of 21 days publish the report on the relevant authority’s website and make copies available for inspection by the public without charge at all reasonable hours at one or more of the authority’s offices, where any person shall be entitled to take copies of, or extracts from, the report when made so available,

(b) supply a copy of the report to any person on request if he or she pays such charge as the relevant authority may reasonably require, and

(c) not later than 7 days after the report is received from by the Standards Committee, give public notice, by advertisement in newspapers circulating in the area and such other ways as appear to him or her to be appropriate, that copies of the report will be available as provided by sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) above, and shall specify the date (being a date not more than seven days after public notice is first given) from which the period of 21 days will begin.