Subject(s): Local government -- Rules -- Present local government system: process of reform, reform in Scotland, system after reorganization, associations and government departments, local legislation and byelaws -- Organization and committee structure of a local authority : Appointments of committee and sub-committees, committee membership and political balance, votes and minutes, delegated or plenary powers -- Works of members : Aims and objectives, limitation on action, scope of office, rime off and attendance allowances, liabilities and indemnities -- Work of officers : Statutory officers, delegation of functions and rules of employment, proper officer, principal office and administrative provisions, head of paid service, monitoring officers, chief finance officer, politically restricted posts, indemnities and powers -- compulsory competitive tendering : Local government, planning and land act 1980- worked contract and functional work, proper considerations for public supply contracts or work contracts, DLO/DSO profits and losses, bidding for or carrying out work outside the authority , space capacity -- Reasonableness and ultra vires rules : non-statutory and statutory sources of law, reasonableness and Wednesbury principles, criminal and tortious matters, consequences of ultra vires actions -- Lawful expenditure, powers to buy and sell land and local authority companies : Revenue and capital expenditure, borrowing and credit approvals, revenue spending, consequences of unlawful expenditure, local government act 1972 section 137, powers to buy land, secretary of state's register of land holdings, power to sell land, local authority companies -- Grants to other organizations : Local government act 1972 section 137, local government act 1985 section 48 schemes, general requirements about making grants, other powers -- declarations of interest and code of conduct : Statutory framework, pecuniary interest, section 19 register of member's interests, removal of disabilities or dispensations, interests of officers in contracts, failure to declare an interest, transport act 1985, national code of local government conduct 1974-1990, national code of local government conduct 1990, code dispensations -- Party political restrictions : Local government act 1986, politically restricted posts, independent adjudicator, applications for exemption, meaning of political restrictions, assistants for political groups, common law restrictions -- Standing orders : Local government and housing act 1989 section 20, consequences of breaching standing orders, standing order relating to contracts, standing orders relating to employees, financial regulations rules about voting -- Access to information rights of public : Inspection of accounts, inspection of documents and files, inspection of registers, attending meetings and inspecting agenda's, additional rights of councilors, annual reports -- Audit : Audit commission, district audit and private audit, keeping accounts, accounts and audit regulations 1983, inspection of accounts and right of challenge, declaration of items as unlawful, local government finance act 1988 section 114, prohibition orders, judicial review, audit commission research studies -- Challenging decision - judicial review : Nature of judicial review, who may apply for judicial review, some factors in considering applications, additional procedural considerations, grounds for granting judicial review, applications for judicial review by councils, enforcement of public rights -- Challenging decisions- local ombudsman : Authorities and matters which may be investigated, matters which may not be investigated, complaints investigation procedure, reports and remedies, using complaints procedure