Part 4 - Call-in procedure rules
Below are the call-in procedure rules.
- 1 - Scope
- 2 - Publication of Cabinet decisions and implementation
- 3 - Grounds for call-in
- 4 - Call-in procedure
- 5 - Call-in and deferring implementation
- 6 - Consideration by the relevant Scrutiny Committee
- 7 - Action by the relevant Scrutiny Committee
- 8 - Action by the Cabinet, Leader of the Council or Cabinet Member
- 9 - Response to the relevant Scrutiny Committee
- 10 - Call-in of urgent decisions and urgent implementation
- 11 - Call-in of decisions outside the Policy Framework and budge
- 12 - Call-in template
A decision may only be called-in if one or more of the following conditions are satisfied:
3.1 The decision would conflict in whole or in part with any existing policy that has been formally approved or adopted by the Council;
3.2 The decision would not be wholly in accordance with the Council’s budget;
3.3 In making the decision, the Cabinet, the Leader of the Council or a Cabinet Member or Officer under delegated powers took account of an irrelevant matter or failed to take account of a relevant matter, which in the opinion of the Chief Executive, had (or would have had) a significant bearing on that decision;
3.4 The Cabinet, the Leader of the Council or a Cabinet Member or Officer under delegated powers acted contrary to the Cabinet Procedure Rules, the Access to Information about the County Council’s Formal Business and/or the principles of decision making set out in Part 2, Article 7.02 of the Constitution.