Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947

117 Proceedings of committees and sub-committees.

(1) A local authority appointing a committee may appoint a member of the committee to be the convener or chairman thereof and a member to be the vice-convener or vice-chairman.

(2) A committee-of a local authority appointing a subcommittee may, subject to any standing orders or any directions by the authority, appoint a member of the sub-committee to be the convener or chairman thereof and a member to be vice-convener or vice-chairman.

(3) A local authority may make, vary and revoke standing orders respecting the quorum, proceedings (including the keeping of minutes) and place of meeting of committees appointed by the authority and of any sub-committee thereof and other matters mentioned in this section, but subject to any such standing orders or to any directions by the authority, the quorum, proceedings and place of meeting shall be such as the committee or sub-committee, as the case may be, may determine.

(4) Subject to any standing orders or any directions by the local authority, every committee shall report its proceedings to the authority, and every sub-committee shall report its proceedings to the committee appointing the sub-committee.

(5) The foregoing provisions of this section shall apply—

(a) subject to the provisions of this Act and of any administrative scheme which may be applicable; and

(b) in the case of a committee or sub-committee appointed under an enactment other than this Act or any statutory order or a committee appointed under this Act but exercising the functions of a committee provided for under an enactment other than this Act or a statutory order, subject to the provisions of that other enactment or that statutory order.