[SCHEDULE 5A Combined Authorities: Overview and Scrutiny Committees and Audit Committees]

[SCHEDULE 5A Combined Authorities: Overview and Scrutiny Committees and Audit Committees]

[Functions of overview and scrutiny committee

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(1)     A combined authority must arrange for the appointment by the authority of one or more committees of the authority (referred to in this Schedule as overview and scrutiny committees).

(2)     The arrangements must ensure that the combined authority's overview and scrutiny committee has power (or its overview and scrutiny committees have power between them)—

(a)     to review or scrutinise decisions made, or other action taken, in connection with the discharge of any functions which are the responsibility of the authority;

(b)     to make reports or recommendations to the authority with respect to the discharge of any functions that are the responsibility of the authority;

(c)     to make reports or recommendations to the authority on matters that affect the authority's area or the inhabitants of the area.

(3)     If the combined authority is a mayoral combined authority, the arrangements must also ensure that the combined authority's overview and scrutiny committee has power (or its overview and scrutiny committees have power between them)—

(a)     to review or scrutinise decisions made, or other action taken, in connection with the discharge

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