The Local Audit (Auditor Panel) Regulations 2014

Application of local authority enactments to auditor panels: political balance

10.—(1) This regulation applies to a political balance authority which appoints three or more members of the authority to be members of an auditor panel.

(2) In relation to a political balance authority to which this regulation applies whose auditor panel is—

(a) appointed as an auditor panel by that authority, or

(b) a committee of the authority to which paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 4 to the Act applies,

the political balance enactments apply to the auditor panel as if the auditor panel were an ordinary committee of the authority.

(3) In relation to a political balance authority to which this regulation applies whose auditor panel is appointed by that authority and one or more other relevant authorities, the political balance enactments apply to the appointments to the auditor panel as if the auditor panel were a body falling within paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to the 1989 Act(1).

(4) In this regulation—

“ordinary committee” has the same meaning as in Schedule 1 to the 1989 Act(2);

“political balance authority” means—

(a)

a county council in England;

(b)

a district council;

(c)

a London borough council;

(d)

a joint authority under Part 4 of the Local Government Act 1985;

(e)

the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority;

(f)

a fire and rescue authority in England constituted by a scheme under section 2 of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 or a scheme to which section 4 of that Act applies;

(g)

an economic prosperity board; and

(h)

a combined authority;

“political balance enactments” means—

(a)

sections 15 to 17 and 21 of, and Schedule 1 to, the 1989 Act; and

(b)

the Local Government (Committees and Political Groups) Regulations 1990(3) so far as applying in relation to the provisions mentioned in paragraph (a).

(1)

Paragraph 2 was amended by paragraph 44 of Schedule 4 to the Police and Magistrates’ Courts Act 1994 (c.29); paragraph 2(8) of Schedule 10, paragraph 31(5) of Schedule 10 and Schedule 24 to the Environment Act 1995 (c.25); paragraph 4(7) of Schedule 13 to the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (c.37); paragraph 81 of Schedule 6 to the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009 (c.20); Schedule 22 to the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (c.23).

(2)

See paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 to the Local Government and Housing Act 1989.

(3)

S.I. 1990/1553, relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1991/1398, 1993/1339, 1998/1918, 1999/500, 2010/1142.