The Local Authorities (Functions and Responsibilities) (England) Regulations 2000

Functions which may be the responsibility of an authority’s executive

3.—(1) The functions specified in Schedule 2 to these Regulations may be (but need not be) the responsibility of an executive of the authority.

(2) The functions of Hastings Borough Council in relation to the management of the Hastings and Saint Leonards Museum(1) may be (but need not be) the responsibility of an executive of the Council.

(3) Where the functions mentioned in paragraph (2) are the responsibility of the Council’s executive, the Hastings and Saint Leonards Museum Association may appoint persons who are for the time being members of the Association to attend any meeting of an overview and scrutiny committee of that Council, or of a sub-committee of any such committee (“the relevant committee or sub-committee”), at which the management of the Museum is the subject of consideration; and the persons so appointed shall, subject to paragraph (4), be entitled to speak and vote at the meeting on any question relating to the management of the Museum which falls to be decided at the meeting.

(4) The number of persons appointed as mentioned in paragraph (3) shall, as nearly as may be, bear to the number for the time being of members of the relevant committee or sub-committee, the same proportion as 2 bears to 5, but the number of persons representing the Association at any such meeting as is referred to in that paragraph as are entitled to vote shall not exceed the number of members of the relevant committee or sub-committee present at that meeting.