Further to Minute 34 (Standards and Constitutional Oversight Committee Working Group, 24 February). To consider the revised draft Guidance to Members for Appointments to Outside Bodies (attached).

Further to Minute 34 (Standards and Constitutional Oversight Committee Working Group, 24 February, 2016), the Committee was requested to consider the revised draft Guidance to Members for Appointments to Outside Bodies.

The Head of Legal and Member Services stated that it was important for Members to be aware of some of the issues involved in taking up a role on an outside body. There was a need to always act in the best interests of the body to which a Member had been appointed.

In response to Members’ comments he reported that if a body was to make any change to its membership they could choose to do so through a change in their Articles and the Council should be informed of such a change.

Resolved – That the Draft Guidance to Members for Appointments to Outside Bodies be agreed.