Agenda item

Report of the Head of Legal Services and Monitoring Officer.

The Chief Whip MOVED and it was:

RESOLVED:

That with immediate effect;

(i)     that approval be given to The Members’ Code of Conduct as  attached at Appendix 1 of the report;

(ii)  that approval be given to the arrangements for dealing with allegations that a member had failed to comply with the code, as attached at Appendix 2 of the report;

(iii)that the terms of reference of the Standards Committee, Assessment Sub-Committee and Hearing Sub-Committee as set out in Appendix 3 of the report be reaffirmed;

(iv)that approval be given  to the amendments to the Constitution consequential to the changes to the ethical framework, as set out at Appendix 4 of the report;

(v)  that Rachel Hatch and Christopher Watts be appointed as the Council’s Primary and Secondary Independent Persons respectively  for a period of four years pursuant to Section 28 of the Localism Act; and

(vi)that in respect of (v) above remuneration of the for the Primary Independent Person be £1000 per annum and  the Secondary Independent person £250 per annum from 1 July 2012- 30 June in any year, pro-rata from the date of appointment for 2012/13.