Part 13: General Schedule 1: Combined county authorities: overview and scrutiny committees and audit committee Effect
Schedule 1 provides that an overview and scrutiny committee for a CCA has the power to review and scrutinise decisions made, or action taken, by the CCA and, in the case of a mayoral CCA, the mayor on behalf of the CCA. The committee may also make reports and recommendations in respect of the discharge of functions of the CCA and about any matters that affect the authority's area or its inhabitants. An overview and scrutiny committee will be able to call-in a decision which has been made but not implemented, direct that the decision cannot be implemented while it is called in, and recommend that the decision be reconsidered. Paragraph 3(2)(i) gives the Secretary of State the power to provide for a minimum or maximum call-in period.
	Schedule 1 includes provisions about the membership and structure of an overview and scrutiny committee for a CCA. Paragraph 2(1) provides that an overview and scrutiny committee may appoint one or more sub-committees to discharge its functions. The Schedule provides that the majority of members of an overview and scrutiny committee must be members of constituent councils of the CCA area and the membership may not include any member of the CCA.
	Paragraphs 3(1) and 3(2) enable the Secretary of State to make provision by regulations about the overview and scrutiny committee(s) of a CCA. This provision may include: details about the membership of an overview and scrutiny committee and the voting rights of such members; the payment of allowances to members; the person who is to be chair of such a committee; the appointment of a scrutiny officer of an overview and scrutiny committee; the circumstances in which matters may be referred to an overview and scrutiny committee; obligations on persons to respond to reports or recommendations made by an overview and scrutiny committee; the publication of reports, recommendations or responses; and the information which must, or must not, be disclosed to an overview and scrutiny committee.