Issue - meetings

Report ES20097

Members considered a report relating to two current Trading Standards investigations that were proceeding to prosecution and required cross boundary authorisations from other local authorities. Acceptance of the recommendations would also have a bearing on ongoing and future cases.

Where the Executive function from other authorities was required, this needed to be formally accepted by the Executive. On 19^th April 2021, Council agreed an amendment to the Constitution to clarify that for executive functions the decision sat with the Leader and for other functions with the Council; however, to comply with correct governance, this decision first needed to be approved by the Portfolio Holder for Public Protection and Enforcement (following pre-decision scrutiny by the Public Protection and Enforcement PDS) prior to it being recommended to the Executive.

The report had been scrutinised by the Public Protection and Enforcement PDS Committee on 16^th June 2021 and the Committee supported the recommendations.

RESOLVED that

(1) The delegation of functions from other local authorities (listed in Appendix A to the report) for adoption for the purposes of legal proceedings be accepted.

(2) Authority be delegated to the Director of Environment and Public Protection to accept delegation of function from the other local authorities in relation to this matter.