The Constitution of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

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

Here you can download and print individual articles and parts of the Royal Borough's Constitution.

You can also download and print a copy of the Fee Setting Responsibilities and Delegations: Proposal Form [PDF file] (Warning: large file size 1.6Mb).

You can also see a copy of the Constitution at Kensington Central Library.

For an explanation of the Constitution see Summary and Explanation.

If you have any queries or require more information please contact Governance Services.

	Section	Title	File Size
	Part 1
		Table of Contents	(113Kb)
		Summary and explanation	(57Kb)
	Part 2 - Articles of the constitution
	Article 1	The Constitution	(29Kb)
	Article 2	Members of the Council	(67Kb)
	Article 3	Local people and the Council	(27Kb)
	Article 4	The full Council	(31Kb)
	Article 5	The role and functions of the Mayor	(22Kb)
	Article 6	Overview and Scrutiny Committees	(74Kb)
	Article 7	The Cabinet (Executive)	(46Kb)
	Article 8	Council committees	(16Kb)
	Article 9	The Standards Committee	(33Kb)
	Article 10	Joint arrangements	(24Kb)
	Article 11	Officers	(71Kb)
	Article 12	Decision-making	(25Kb)
	Article 13	Finance, contracts and legal matters	(16Kb)
	Article 14	Review and revision of the Constitution	(20Kb)
	Article 15	Suspension, interpretation and publication of the Constitution	(21Kb)
	Part 3 - Responsibility for Functions
	A	Executive functions	(167Kb)
	B	Non-executive functions	(100Kb)
	C	Functions delegated to Officers	(302Kb)
	Part 4 - Rules of Procedure
	A	Council standing orders	(112Kb)
	B	Hearing procedure rules	(25Kb)
	C	Access to information procedure rules	(50Kb)
	D	Financial procedure rules	(74Kb)
	E	Audit procedure rules	(23Kb)
	F	Procurement procedure rules and contract regulations	(102Kb)
	G	Legal procedure rules	(121Kb)
	H	Officer employment procedure rules	(25Kb)
	Part 5 - Codes and Protocols
	A	Members' code of conduct	(65Kb)
	A2	Publicity code of conduct	(42Kb)
	B	Officers' code of conduct	(44Kb)
	C	Protocol on Member/Officer relations	(42Kb)
	D	Local code of Corporate Governance	(122Kb)
	Part 6
		Members' Allowances Scheme	(88Kb)
	Part 7
		Management Structure	(49Kb)
	Appendices
	Appendix A	Glossary of terms found in the constitution	(38Kb)
	Appendix B	The Royal Borough's Member-level Corporate Governance Structure	(22Kb)
	Appendix C	Index	(136Kb)