168.Section 73 gives the NAW (or, in the case of police authorities in Wales, the Secretary of State) the power to make regulations to determine the way in which matters referred to the monitoring officer of a relevant authority under sections 70(4) or 71(2) should be dealt with. Such regulations may:
	enable a monitoring officer to conduct an investigation in respect of any matters referred to him;
	enable a monitoring officer to make a report or recommendations to the standards committee of the authority in respect of matters referred to him;
	enable the standards committee of a relevant authority to consider any report or recommendation made to it by the monitoring officer of the authority; and
	enable the standards committee of the relevant authority, following its consideration of a monitoring officer’s report or recommendations, to take any action prescribed by the regulations.
169.Regulations may also:
	confer rights on any member or co-opted member of a relevant authority who is the subject of the monitoring officer’s investigation;
	enable the standards committee of the relevant authority to censure, suspend or partially suspend a member or co-opted member of the authority; and
	confer a right of appeal on a member in respect of any such action taken against him.
Introduction Commentary on sections Section 73: Matters referred to monitoring officers