Issue - items at meetings - Constitutional Matters

Report of the Monitoring Officer (copy attached).

(1)       That the committee’s terms of reference, as set out in Appendix A to the report, be noted.

(2)       That the establishment of an Urgency Sub-Committee consisting of the Chair of the Committee and two other Members (nominated in accordance with the scheme for the allocation of seats for committees), to exercise its powers in relation to matters of urgency, on which it is necessary to make a decision before the next ordinary meeting of the Committee be approved. 

7.1       The Committee considered a report of the Monitoring Officer which provided information on the committee’s terms of reference and related matters including the appointment of its Urgency Sub-Committee.    

7.2       The Senior Lawyer set out the report and confirmed that the Urgency Sub-Committee would comprise of the Chair and a member of each of the opposition parties.  Substitutes would be allowed.  

7.3       RESOLVED - (1)      That the committee’s terms of reference, as set out in Appendix A to the report, be noted.

(2)       That the establishment of an Urgency Sub-Committee consisting of the Chair of the Committee and two other Members (nominated in accordance with the scheme for the allocation of seats for committees), to exercise its powers in relation to matters of urgency, on which it is necessary to make a decision before the next ordinary meeting of the Committee be approved.