PART 2Executive officers

Monitoring officer

Support and advice functions of monitoring officer8.

(1)

The monitoring officer designated by a corporate joint committee under section 5 of the 1989 Act must provide support and advice to—

(a)

the corporate joint committee in relation to its meetings;

(b)

any sub-committee of the corporate joint committee;

(c)

each member of the corporate joint committee in carrying out their role;

(d)

each person appointed to a sub-committee of the corporate joint committee in carrying out their role.

(2)

But the reference to advice in sub-paragraphs (1)(c) and (d) does not include advice about whether or how the corporate joint committee’s functions should be, or should have been, exercised.

(3)

The corporate joint committee must provide the monitoring officer with such staff, accommodation and other resources as are, in the monitoring officer’s opinion, sufficient to allow the officer’s functions under this paragraph to be discharged.

(4)

The monitoring officer may arrange for the discharge of their functions under this paragraph by a member of staff of the corporate joint committee.