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General complaints against councils' decisions may be taken up with each council's Chief Executive. Breaches of statute or codes of practice may be taken up with the council's monitoring officer.
We will point out to the Parliament that we do not normally want such powers to be provided and that we agree with the Executive about how we normally view such powers.Subsections (1), (2A) to (2E), (3) and (7) of section 23 concern a code of practice. Do we have anything to say about them?
It is worth while to note that we are not shuffling off Parliament's responsibility for the quality of legislation and for the effect of subordinate legislation on rules, regulations, guidance and codes of practice, which are at the pointy end.