The Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland Combined Authority (Establishment and Functions) Order 2018

Overview and scrutiny committee of the joint transport committee

4.—(1) The joint transport committee must establish a committee as an overview and scrutiny committee of the joint transport committee.

(2) The joint transport committee must appoint at least two members of each of the constituent councils of the Combined Authority and the Durham, Gateshead, South Tyneside and Sunderland Combined Authority to be members of the overview and scrutiny committee of the joint transport committee.

(3) The joint transport committee must appoint an independent person to be the chair of the overview and scrutiny committee of the joint transport committee or a sub-committee of such a committee.

(4) The overview and scrutiny committee of the joint transport committee must not include any substitute committee member of the joint transport committee.

(5) Schedule 5A to the 2009 Act (combined authorities: overview and scrutiny committees and audit committees) applies in relation to the overview and scrutiny committee of the joint transport committee as if—

(a) the overview and scrutiny committee of the joint transport committee were an overview and scrutiny committee of a combined authority for the purposes of that Schedule;

(b) for paragraph 1(1) there were substituted—

“(1) This Schedule relates to the arrangements made by the joint transport committee under paragraph 4 of Schedule 2 to the Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland Combined Authority (Establishment and Functions) Order 2018 for the appointment by the joint transport committee of one or more committees of the joint transport committee (referred to in this Schedule as overview and scrutiny committees).”;

(c) in paragraph 1(2)—

(i) for “combined authority’s” there were substituted “joint transport committee’s”;

(ii) for “authority” in each place there were substituted “joint transport committee”;

(iii) in sub-paragraph (c) for “the authority’s area” there were substituted “the area of the councils for the local government areas of Durham, Gateshead, Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside, Northumberland, South Tyneside and Sunderland”;

(d) paragraph 1(3) were omitted;

(e) in paragraph 1(4) “and (3)(a)” were omitted;

(f) in paragraph 1(5) for “a combined authority” there were substituted “the joint transport committee”;

(g) in paragraph 1(6) for “combined authority” there were substituted “joint transport committee”;

(h) in paragraph 1(7)—

(i) for “combined authority” there were substituted “joint transport committee”;

(ii) after “Schedule” there were inserted “or paragraph 4 of Schedule 2 to the Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland Combined Authority (Establishment and Functions) Order 2018”;

(i) in paragraph 2 for “a combined authority” in each place there were substituted “the joint transport committee”;

(j) in paragraph 2(3) for “a combined authority may not include a member of the authority (including, in the case of a mayoral combined authority, the mayor for the authority’s area or deputy mayor)” there were substituted “the joint transport committee may not include a member of the joint transport committee”;

(k) in paragraph 2(6)(a)—

(i) for “members or officers of the authority” there were substituted “members or officers of the joint transport committee”;

(ii) there were omitted “(including, in the case of a mayoral combined authority, the mayor for the authority’s area and deputy mayor)”.

(l) paragraph 3 were omitted;

(m) in paragraph 4(1) for “a combined authority must arrange for the appointment by the authority” there were substituted “the joint transport committee must arrange for the appointment by the committee”;

(n) in paragraph 4(2)(a) to (c) for “authority’s” there were substituted “joint transport committee’s”;

(o) in paragraph 4(2)(d) for “combined authority” there were substituted “joint transport committee”; and

(p) paragraphs 4(3) and (4) were omitted.