C2C3C6 Part VIII Financial Administration

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C2

Pt. VIII (ss. 111-116) applied (temp. from 4.5.1995 to 31.3.1996) by S.I. 1995/1042, art. 4(1)

Pt. VIII (ss. 111-116) applied (with modifications) (4.6.1996) by S.I. 1996/1243, art. 18, Sch. 5 Pt. I para. 4(1)

Power to make provision about matters of the kind dealt with by Pt. VIII (ss. 111-116) conferred (1.9.1997) by 1997 c. 50, s. 44(1), Sch. 4 para. (i); S.I. 1997/1930, art. 3(2)(m) (with art. 3(3))

Pt. VIII: power to apply conferred (31.8.2000) by 1997 c. 25, s. 59D(4) (as inserted (31.8.2000) by 1999 c. 22, s. 83(2), (with s. 107, Sch. 14 para. 7(2)); S.I. 2000/1920, art. 3(b)

C1C4C5114 Functions of responsible officer as regards reports.

1

On and after the commencement day the person having responsibility for the administration of the financial affairs of a relevant authority under section 151 of the 1972 Act, section 73 of the 1985 Act F1 section 127 of the 1999 ActF12, or Schedule 1, 2 or 4 to the 2011 Act or section 112 above shall have the duties mentioned in this section, without prejudice to any other functions; and in this section he is referred to as the chief finance officer of the authority.

2

F2Subject to subsection (2A),the chief finance officer of a relevant authority shall make a report under this section if it appears to him that the authority, a committee F3of the authority, a person holding any office or employment under the authority, a member of F11the relevant police force, or a joint committee on which the authority is represented—

a

has made or is about to make a decision which involves or would involve the authority incurring expenditure which is unlawful,

b

has taken or is about to take a course of action which, if pursued to its conclusion, would be unlawful and likely to cause a loss or deficiency on the part of the authority, or

c

is about to enter an item of account the entry of which is unlawful.

F42A

Where a relevant authority is operating executive arrangements, the chief finance officer of the relevant authority shall not make a report under subsection (2) in respect of any action referred to in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of that subsection unless it is action taken otherwise than by or on behalf of the relevant authority’s executive.

3

The chief finance officer of a relevant authority shall make a report under this section if it appears to him that the expenditure of the authority incurred (including expenditure it proposes to incur) in a financial year is likely to exceed the resources (including sums borrowed) available to it to meet that expenditure.

F53A

It shall be the duty of the chief finance officer of a relevant authority F13(except where the relevant authority is a chief officer of police), in preparing a report in pursuance of subsection (2) above, to consult so far as practicable—

a

with the person who is for the time being designated as the head of the authority’s paid service under section 4 of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989; and

b

with the person who is for the time being responsible for performing the duties of the authority’s monitoring officer under section 5 of that Act.

F63B

Subsection (3A) above shall have effect in relation to the London Development Agency with the substitution for paragraphs (a) and (b) of the words “with the person who is for the time being appointed under paragraph 4(2) of Schedule 2 to the M1Regional Development Agencies Act 1998 as the chief executive of the London Development Agency”.

F63C

Subsection (3A) above shall have effect in relation to Transport for London with the substitution for paragraphs (a) and (b) of the words “with the person who is for the time being designated for the purpose under subsection (3D) below”.

F63D

Transport for London shall designate a member of Transport for London, or a member of the staff of Transport for London, as the person who is to be consulted under subsection (3A) above.

4

Where a chief finance officer of a relevant authority has made a report under this section he shall send a copy of it to—

a

the person who at the time the report is made has the duty to audit the authority’s accounts, and

F14b

in the case of—

i

a police and crime commissioner, the commissioner and each member of the police and crime panel for the commissioner's police area;

ii

the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime, that Office and each member of the police and crime panel of the London Assembly;

iii

a chief officer of police, the chief officer and the elected local policing body; and

iv

any other relevant authority, each person who is at that time a member of the authority; and

F7c

in a case where the relevant authority has a mayor and council manager executive, the person who at the time the report is made is the council manager of that authority

F84A

The duty under subsection (4)(b) above—

a

in a case where the relevant authority is the Greater London Authority, is to send a copy of the report to the Mayor of London and to each member of the London Assembly; and

b

in a case where the relevant authority is a functional body, within the meaning of the 1999 Act, includes a duty to send a copy of the report to the Mayor of London and to the Chair of the Assembly, within the meaning of that Act.

5

Subject to subsection (6) below, the duties of a chief finance officer of a relevant authority under subsections (2) and (3) above shall be performed by him personally.

6

If the chief finance officer is unable to act owing to absence or illness his duties under subsections (2) and (3) above shall be performed—

a

by such member of his staff as is a member of one or more of the bodies mentioned in section 113(3) above and is for the time being nominated by the chief finance officer for the purposes of this section, or

b

if no member of his staff is a member of one or more of those bodies, by such member of his staff as is for the time being nominated by the chief finance officer for the purposes of this section.

7

A relevant authority shall provide its chief finance officer with such staff, accommodation and other resources as are in his opinion sufficient to allow his duties under this section to be performed.

8

In this section—

a

references to a joint committee are to a committee on which two or more relevant authorities are represented, and

b

references to a committee (joint or otherwise) include references to a sub-committee.

F108A

In this section “relevant police force”, in relation to the chief finance officer of a relevant authority, means—

a

in the case where the relevant authority is a chief officer of police, the police force of which that person is chief officer;

b

in any other case, the police force maintained by the relevant authority.

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