PART 6

OVERVIEW AND SCRUTINY
CHAPTER 1

OVERVIEW AND SCRUTINY COMMITTEES

Appointing persons to chair committees

Occasional vacancies in committee chairs
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1
A local authority’s appointment provision complies with this section if it provides for the case set out in subsection (2) by means of provision of the kind referred to in subsections (3) and (4).
2
That case is where—
a
some, but not all, of the authority’s committee chairs fall to be appointed, and
b
it is not the case set out in section 72.
3
The appointment provision must provide for the making of—
a
a section 70 determination (as if all of the local authority’s committee chairs had fallen to be appointed), and
b
a determination of whether there is a difference between—
i
the number of committee chairs that a political group would be entitled to appoint in accordance with the section 70 determination, and
ii
the number of committee chairs holding office at that time who were appointed by that group.
4
The appointment provision must provide for any difference of the kind referred to in subsection (3)(b) to be eliminated, so far as possible, by the appointment of the committee chair or chairs.