Section 9F: Overview and scrutiny committees: functions, Local Government Act 2000

Executive arrangements by a local authority must include provision for the appointment by the authority of one or more committees of the authority (referred to in this Chapter as overview and scrutiny committees).

Executive arrangements by a local authority must ensure that its overview and scrutiny committee has power (or its overview and scrutiny committees, and any joint overview and scrutiny committees, have power between them)—

to review or scrutinise decisions made, or other action taken, in connection with the discharge of any functions which are the responsibility of the executive,

to make reports or recommendations to the authority or the executive with respect to the discharge of any functions which are the responsibility of the executive,

to review or scrutinise decisions made, or other action taken, in connection with the discharge of any functions which are not the responsibility of the executive,

to make reports or recommendations to the authority or the executive with respect to the discharge of any functions which are not the responsibility of the executive,

to make reports or recommendations to the authority or the executive on matters which affect the authority's area or the inhabitants of that area,

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In subsection (2) "joint overview and scrutiny committee", in relation to a local authority ("the authority concerned"), means—

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a joint overview and scrutiny committee within the meaning of section 123 of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (joint overview and scrutiny committees) appointed by two or more local authorities including the authority concerned.

The power of an overview and scrutiny committee under subsection (2)(a) to review or scrutinise a decision made but not implemented includes power—

to recommend that the decision be reconsidered by the person who made it, or

to arrange for its function under subsection (2)(a), so far as it relates to the decision, to be exercised by the authority.

An overview and scrutiny committee of a local authority may not discharge any functions other than—

its functions under this section and sections 9FA to 9FI, ...

its functions under section 19 of the Police and Justice Act 2006 (local authority scrutiny of crime and disorder matters)or

any functions which may be conferred on it by virtue of regulations under section 244(2ZE) of the National Health Service Act 2006 (local authority scrutiny of health matters).

Section 9F: Overview and scrutiny committees: functions

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