Committee on Standards in Public Life: Standards of conduct of local government in England, Scotla…
R3-6
Published July 1997
Response position and delivery status are recorded separately. Acceptance does not establish implementation.
Recommendation (the Committee's words)
The appropriate Secretary of State should be able to make a formal request to a local authority that it should make changes in its local code or standing orders if he or she considers that it does not achieve at least the same effect as the model code. If the local authority does not comply, the Secretary of State should be able to refer the code to the relevant Local Government Tribunal (see R24), which would have the power to order changes.
From: Committee on Standards in Public Life, Standards of conduct of local government in England, Scotland and Wales, July 1997