Commentary Part 1: Local Government Chapter 5: Governance Chapter 3: The committee systemNew section 9J: Secretary of State’s power to prohibit delegation of functions etc
90.New section 9J provides that the Secretary of State may by regulations specify or describe those functions or actions of a committee system local authority that are to be non-delegable functions or actions and specify or describe cases or circumstances in which any specified or described function or action is to be non-delegable. If these functions or actions are non-delegable then they must by carried out by the local authority and section 101 of the Local Government Act 1972 does not apply to them.