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Section 54A: Sub-committees of standards committees

Local Government Act 2000 · 2000 c. 22View on legislation.gov.uk

Part III: Conduct of local government members and employees — Chapter I: Conduct of members

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.

Subsection (1) does not apply to a standards committee established by a corporate joint committee.

Subsection (1) does not apply to functions under section ...56.

A sub-committee under subsection (1) shall be appointed from among the members of the standards committee by which it is appointed ....

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As regards sub-committees appointed under subsection (1) by a standards committee of a relevant authority ...—

regulations under section 53(11) may make provision in relation to such sub-committees, and
section 54(5) and (7) apply in relation to such sub-committees as they apply in relation to standards committees.

Subject to ... any provision made by regulations under section 53(11)(a) (as applied by this section)—

the number of members of a sub-committee under subsection (1), and
the term of office of those members,

are to be fixed by the standards committee by which the sub-committee is appointed.

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