Agenda item

The Council’s Constitution required the Committee, in conjunction with the Monitoring Officer, to produce an annual report for submission to Full Council on matters within the purview of the Committee.  Currently the Standards Committee’s annual report was submitted to Council for approval and the view was that as the report was the Committee’s own account of its actions for the preceding year it should be submitted to Council for information only.  This would not preclude the Council from commenting on the content of the report and making recommendations thereon to the Committee if it so wished.

Accordingly, it was proposed that sub-paragraph 8 (i) of Article 9 in Part 2 and the corresponding section in Part 3 of the Constitution should be amended to read as follows:-

  “In conjunction with the Monitoring Officer to produce an annual

report for submission to Council for information on matters

within the purview of the Committee.”

Resolved  -  That the Member Panel on the Constitution be recommended to  approve the amendment of  sub-paragraph 8 (i) of Article 9 in Part 2 and the corresponding section in Part 3 of the Constitution to provide for the submission of the Standards Committee’s annual report to Council for information only.