Issue - meetings

Mr D H Bristow presented the Report of the meeting of the Standards Committee held on 9th December 2004.

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In connection with Item No. 10, the Chairman informed the Council that Regulations had recently come into force which authorised Monitoring Officers to undertake investigations into alleged breaches by councillors of their respective codes of conduct and that Standards Committees would be able to make determinations following Monitoring Officer reports on the investigation of such breaches.

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Referring to Item No. 11, the Chairman also welcomed the action taken by The Standards Board for England to implement a new referral process to reduce the time being taken by the Board to process cases involving allegations of misconduct.

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Whereupon, it was

RESOLVED

  that the Report of the meeting of the Standards Committee held on 9th December 2004 be received and adopted.

Councillor P J Brant presented the Report of the meeting of the Standards Committee held on 17th December 2003.

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Whereupon, it was

RESOLVED

  that the Report of the meeting of the Standards Committee held on 17th December 2003 be received and adopted.