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Parliamentary Standards Act 2009

Parliamentary Standards Act 2009

2009 CHAPTER 13

Commentary on Sections

Schedule 3: Speaker’s Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority

76.This Schedule makes provision for the Speaker’s Committee which is to have the functions set out in this Act – in particular, the function of approving the selection of candidates for appointment as a member of the IPSA or as the Commissioner.

77.Paragraph 1 sets out the membership of the Speaker’s Committee. It is to be the Speaker of the House of Commons, the Leader of the House of Commons, the chair of the Committee on Standards and Privileges and five MPs who are not Ministers of the Crown.

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