The Council may, by resolution, agree to amend these arrangements and delegate to the chair of the Standards Committee, in consultation with the monitoring officer as appropriate, the right to depart from these arrangements in exceptional circumstances (as far as they relate to the business of the Standards Committee for the administration of the fair hearing of a matter) where they consider that it is expedient to do so in order to secure the effective and fair consideration of any matter.
There shall be a desktop review of the code of conduct and these arrangements undertaken by the Committee annually.