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Tower Hamlets Constitution - Part 3 Responsibility for Functions – Proposed Changes
Meeting: 08/03/2017 - General Purposes Committee (Item 3)
3 Tower Hamlets Constitution - Part 3 Responsibility for Functions – Proposed Changes PDF 98 KB
As the Council is operating Executive arrangements then it must have a Constitution and it must also ensure that this Constitution is kept up-to-date. It is a Monitoring Officer role to review the Constitution and make recommendations to ensure that the aims and principles of the Constitution are given full effect. In that regard, a key role for the Monitoring Officer is to be aware of the strengths and weaknesses of the Constitution adopted by the Council and to make recommendations for ways in which it could be amended in order better to achieve the purposes of the Constitution.
Additional documents:
- Appendix 1 - Summary Table, item 3 PDF 302 KB
- Appendix 2 - Constitution Part 3.1.1, item 3 PDF 563 KB
- Appendix 3 Constitution Part 3.1.2 to 3.2, item 3 PDF 366 KB
- Appendix 4 - Constitution Part 3.3, item 3 PDF 990 KB
- Appendix 5 - Constitution Part 3.4, item 3 PDF 197 KB
- Appendix 6 - Constitution Part 3.5 to 3.6, item 3 PDF 184 KB
- Appendix 7 - Constitution Parts 3.7 to 3.8, item 3 PDF 305 KB
- Appendix 8 - Constitution Part 3.9, item 3 PDF 386 KB
- Appendix 9 - Constitution Part 3.10, item 3 PDF 346 KB
- Appendix 10 - Constitution Parts 3.11 to 3.12, item 3 PDF 176 KB
Minutes:
Graham White, Acting Corporate Director, Governance and Interim Monitoring Officer, introduced the report, which proposed a number of changes to Part 3 of the Council’s Constitution. Paul Greeno, Senior Corporate and Governance Lawyer, provided further detail on some of the proposed changes. Mr White informed the Committee that the Council’s Monitoring Officer currently has power to make minor revisions to the Constitution to reflect decisions taken by the Council or changes in legislation or to correct matters of fact. Any changes made under this delegated power will be reported to Councillors.
Mr Greeno alerted the Committee to several technical errors within the circulated report and appendices, which he explained would be corrected prior to the report’s submission to Full Council.
Officers agreed to investigate whether the Overview and Scrutiny Membership paragraph on page 90 of the report could be amended, to clarify voting rights of all co-opted members of the Committee.
RESOLVED that the General Purposes Committee:
1. Noted the spreadsheet in Appendix 1 setting out the revisions and the reasons;
2. Agreed the revised Part 3 Responsibility for Functions of the Constitution as set out in Appendices 2 through to 10, subject to rectification of any technical errors; and
3. Noted that the revisions to the Constitution will go to Council for approval.