Committee on Standards in Public Life: Standards of conduct of local government in England, Scotla…
R3-27
Published July 1997
Response position and delivery status are recorded separately. Acceptance does not establish implementation.
Recommendation (the Committee's words)
Surcharge should be abolished and, pending the introduction of a new statutory offence of misuse of public office (R28), replaced with a procedure in which the auditor applies to the courts for a ruling, and the court has the power to order compensation and/or impose disqualification from office.
From: Committee on Standards in Public Life, Standards of conduct of local government in England, Scotland and Wales, July 1997