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A Standards Committee must cause to be produced within 14 days after:
a
the expiry of the time allowed to lodge a notice of appeal under Regulation 10(2) above,
b
receipt of notification of the conclusion of any appeal in accordance with F1regulation 12(1)(a)(i) or (b) above, or
c
a further determination by the Standards Committee made after receiving a recommendation from an appeals tribunal under F2regulation 12(1)(a)(ii) above,
whichever occurs last, a report on the outcome of the investigation.F3....
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The Standards Committee must send a copy of the report to:
a
any person who is the subject of the investigation,
b
the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales,
c
the monitoring officer of the relevant authority concerned, and
d
where any person subject to the investigation is a member or co-opted member of a corporate joint committee, and is also a member or co-opted member of—
i
a constituent council of the corporate joint committee;
ii
a National Park authority which is required by regulations under Part 5 of the Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 to appoint a member of the corporate joint committee,
the monitoring officer of that constituent council or National Park authority.
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The Standards Committee must also take reasonable steps to send a copy of the report to any person who made any allegation which gave rise to the investigation.
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Upon receipt of the report of the Standards Committee, the monitoring officer of the relevant authority F5concerned shall:
a
for a period of 21 days publish the report on the relevant authority’s website and make copies available for inspection by the public without charge at all reasonable hours at one or more of the authority’s offices, where any person shall be entitled to take copies of, or extracts from, the report when made so available,
b
supply a copy of the report to any person on request if he or she pays such charge as the relevant authority may reasonably require, and
c
not later than 7 days after the report is received from by the Standards Committee, give public notice, by advertisement in newspapers circulating in the area and such other ways as appear to him or her to be appropriate, that copies of the report will be available as provided by sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) above, and shall specify the date (being a date not more than seven days after public notice is first given) from which the period of 21 days will begin.