The Standards Committee (England) Regulations 2008
Section 53 of the Local Government Act 2000 (“the Act”) requires relevant authorities in England and Wales (defined in section 49(6) of the Act) to establish standards committees to exercise functions conferred under Part 3 of the Act. Section 57A of the Act, (inserted with sections 57B to 57D, and section 58) by section 185 of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 enables people to make a written allegation to the standards committee of a relevant authority in England that a member or co-opted member (or former member or former co-opted member) of the authority has failed to comply with the authority’s code of conduct. These Regulations make provision for dealing with such allegations and confer powers on the monitoring officer of the relevant authorities concerned to carry out investigations. They also make provision for standards committees to reach decisions on allegations and to impose sanctions, and for appeals to tribunals of members of the Adjudication Panel for England (“appeals tribunals”).