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Localism Act 2011

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35Delegation of functions by Greater London Authority

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(1)The Mayor of London and the London Assembly, acting jointly, may arrange for any of the functions conferred on them by or under this Chapter to be exercised on their behalf by—

(a)a member of staff of the Greater London Authority, or

(b)a committee appointed in accordance with provision made by virtue of this section.

(2)Standing orders of the Greater London Authority may make provision regulating the exercise of functions by any member of staff of the Authority pursuant to arrangements under subsection (1).

(3)Standing orders of the Greater London Authority may make provision for the appointment of a committee (“the standards committee”) to exercise functions conferred on the Mayor of London and the London Assembly by or under this Chapter in accordance with arrangements under subsection (1).

(4)Standing orders of the Greater London Authority may make provision about the membership and procedure of the standards committee.

(5)The provision that may be made under subsection (4) includes—

(a)provision for the standards committee to arrange for the discharge of its functions by a sub-committee of that committee;

(b)provision about the membership and procedure of such a sub-committee.

(6)Subject to subsection (7), the standards committee and any sub-committee of that committee—

(a)is not to be treated as a committee or (as the case may be) sub-committee of the London Assembly for the purposes of the Greater London Authority Act 1999, but

(b)is a committee or (as the case may be) sub-committee of the Greater London Authority for the purposes of Part 3 of the Local Government Act 1974 (investigations by Commission for Local Administration in England).

(7)Sections 6(3)(a) (failure to attend meetings) and 73(6) (functions of monitoring officer) of the Greater London Authority Act 1999 apply to the standards committee or any sub-committee of that committee as they apply to a committee of the London Assembly or any sub-committee of such a committee.

(8)Part 5A of the Local Government Act 1972 (access to meetings and documents) applies to the standards committee or any sub-committee of that committee as if—

(a)it were a committee or (as the case may be) a sub-committee of a principal council within the meaning of that Part, and

(b)the Greater London Authority were a principal council in relation to that committee or sub-committee.

(9)Arrangements under this section for the exercise of any function by—

(a)a member of staff of the Greater London Authority, or

(b)the standards committee,

do not prevent the Mayor of London and the London Assembly from exercising those functions.

(10)References in this section to the functions of the Mayor of London and the London Assembly conferred by or under this Chapter do not include their functions under this section.

(11)In this section “member of staff of the Greater London Authority” has the same meaning as in the Greater London Authority Act 1999 (see section 424(1) of that Act).

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