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The following
recommendations of the former Standards and Audit Committee were
agreed:

(i)     
the clause on Responsibility for Standards and Audit Committee
(Appendix 1 to the report) under Section 1 of Part 3, and Article
10 – Standards and Audit Committee (Appendix 2 to the report)
under Section 1 of Part 2, in the Council’s Constitution be
amended as set out within the report;

(ii)     the
authority delegated to the Monitoring Officer to make minor
amendments to the Constitution be noted, including amendments to
references within the document and section numbering;

(iii)    Monitoring
Officer be instructed to make the agreed changes to the
Constitution; and

(iv)    the Local
Government Association be lobbied to provide an off the shelf
version of a local authority Constitution that could be adapted by
individual councils.