Section 21B: Duty of authority or executive to respond to overview and scrutiny committee, Local Government Act 2000

This section applies where an overview and scrutiny committee of a local authority ... makes a report or recommendations to the authority or the executive, otherwise than—

by virtue of subsection (1)(b) of section 19 of the Police and Justice Act 2006 (local authority scrutiny of crime and disorder matters), or

by virtue of subsection (3)(a) of that section.

A report or recommendation to a public services board by virtue of section 35(1)(c) of the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015 (anaw 2) is not to be regarded for the purposes of this section as a report or recommendation to the local authority that is a member of the board.

The overview and scrutiny committee may publish the report or recommendations.

The overview and scrutiny committee must by notice in writing require the authority or executive—

to consider the report or recommendations,

to respond to the overview and scrutiny committee indicating what (if any) action the authority propose, or the executive proposes, to take,

if the overview and scrutiny committee has published the report or recommendations under subsection (2), to publish the response,

if the overview and scrutiny committee provided a copy of the report or recommendations to a member of the authority under section 21A(8), to provide the member with a copy of the response,

and to do so within two months beginning with the date on which the authority or executive received the report or recommendations or (if later) the notice.

It is the duty of an authority or executive to which a notice is given under subsection (3) to comply with the requirements specified in the notice.

Subsections (2) and (4) are subject to section 21D and to any provision made under section 22(12A).

In this section—

references to an overview and scrutiny committee include references to a sub-committee of such a committee; and

references to "the authority" or "the executive", in relation to an overview and scrutiny committee, or a sub-committee of such a committee, are to the authority by which the overview and scrutiny committee is established or to the executive of that authority.

Section 21B: Duty of authority or executive to respond to overview and scrutiny committee

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