The Constitution

The Council’s Constitution contains full details of all the Council's democratic systems, and your rights to take part in that process.

Below on this page you can download (and print) individual articles and parts of the Royal Borough’s Constitution, as well as the Fee Setting Responsibilities and Delegations: Proposal Form (warning: large file size 1.4Mb).

 

The constitution

Section Title File Size
  Table of Contents (230Kb)
  Summary and explanation (34Kb)
Part 2 - Articles of the constitution
Article 1 The Constitution (20Kb)
Article 2 Members of the Council (37Kb)
Article 3 Local people and the Council (30Kb)
Article 4 The Full Council (34.3Kb)
Article 5 The role and functions of the Mayor (22Kb)
Article 6 Scrutiny Committees (155Kb)
Article 7 The Cabinet (Executive) (128Kb)
Article 8 Council committees (18Kb)
Article 9 The Standards Committee (28Kb)
Article 10 Joint arrangements (26Kb)
Article 11 Officers (134Kb)
Article 12 Decision-making (98Kb)
Article 13 Finance, contracts and legal matters (17Kb)
Article 14 Review and revision of the Constitution (21Kb)
Article 15 Suspension, interpretation and publication of the Constitution  (21Kb)
Part 3 - Responsibility for Functions
A Executive functions (202Kb)
B Non-executive functions (210Kb)
C Functions delegated to Officers (336Kb)
Part 4 - Rules of Procedure
A Council standing orders (211Kb)
B Hearing procedure rules (51Kb)
C (i) Access to information procedure rules (133Kb)
C (ii) Members' rights of access to information (86Kb)
D Financial procedure rules (325Kb)
E Audit procedure rules (77Kb)
F The Contract Regulations (240Kb)
G Legal procedure rules (69Kb)
H Officer employment procedure rules (81Kb)
Part 5 - Codes and Protocols
A Members' code of conduct (159Kb)
A (i) Publicity code of conduct (102Kb)
A (ii) Members’ code of conduct on ICT usage (161Kb)
B Officers' code of conduct (136Kb)
C Protocol on Member/Officer relations (102Kb)
D Local code of Corporate Governance (271Kb)
E Petitions Scheme (132Kb)
Part 6
  Members' Allowances Scheme (166Kb)
Part 7
  Management Structure (106Kb)
Appendices
Appendix A Glossary of terms found in the constitution (96Kb)
Appendix B The Royal Borough's Member-level Corporate Governance Structure (61Kb)
Appendix C Index (160Kb)