Part III Conduct of local government members and employees
Chapter I Conduct of members
Standards committees
F154ASub-committees of standards committees
(1)
A standards committee of a relevant authority may appoint one or more sub-committees for the purpose of discharging any of the committee’s functions, whether or not to the exclusion of the committee.
F2(1A)
Subsection (1) does not apply to a standards committee established by a corporate joint committee.
(2)
Subsection (1) does not apply to functions under section F3...56.
(3)
A sub-committee under subsection (1) shall be appointed from among the members of the standards committee by which it is appointed F4....
F5(4)
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(5)
As regards sub-committees appointed under subsection (1) by a standards committee of a relevant authority F6...—
(a)
regulations under section 53(11) may make provision in relation to such sub-committees, and
(b)
section 54(5) and (7) apply in relation to such sub-committees as they apply in relation to standards committees.
(6)
Subject to F7... any provision made by regulations under section F853(11)(a) (as applied by this section)—
(a)
the number of members of a sub-committee under subsection (1), and
(b)
the term of office of those members,
are to be fixed by the standards committee by which the sub-committee is appointed.