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Contains the rules about the way in which the Council must operate and make decisions and specifies how and when information will be made available to the public.
Chapter 1 - Access to information procedure rules
Chapter 2 - Executive Procedures Rules
Chapter 3 - Notice of Key Decisions and Key Decisions
Chapter 4 - Budget and Policy Framework Procedure Rules
Chapter 5 - Decision making by individual members of the Executive and key decisions by Officers
Chapter 6 - Urgent decisions outside the Policy Framework and/or budget
Chapter 7 - Removing the Executive Leader and Members of the Executive
Chapter 8 - Resolution of disputes between full Council and the Executive
Chapter 9 - Rights of the Scrutiny Panels
Chapter 10 - Call-in procedure for Executive decisions
Chapter 11 - Archived