Standards and Privileges

2017 - 2022 Mandate

The role and functions of the Committee for Standards and Privileges include the following main areas:

• Developing and maintaining the standards regime in respect of Assembly Members’ conduct (including: responsibility for the Code of Conduct and Guide to the Rules; putting in place the arrangements for having allegations of misconduct investigated; and for overseeing the maintenance and publication of the Register of Members’ Interests).
• Considering reports on investigations into specific complaints of alleged breaches of the Code of Conduct (including determining whether a breach of the Code of Conduct has occurred and, where appropriate, recommending to the Assembly that a sanction be imposed).
• Considering specific matters relating to privilege referred to it by the Assembly.
• Approving the formation of All-Party Groups and overseeing the maintenance and publication of a ‘Register of All-Party Groups’. Advice on making a complaint can be found at www.standardscommissionerniassembly.org.

Here you will find further information about the work of the Standards and Privileges Committee during the 2017 - 2022 Mandate.

• Watch Again
• Membership
• Minutes of Proceedings
• Minutes of Evidence
• Reports
• Annual Reports from the Assembly Commissioner for Standards
• Press Releases
• Research Papers
• Previous Mandate
• Assembly Complaints Process
• All-Party Group Meetings During Public Health Crisis
• Supplementary Guidance for All Party Group Meetings during the Current Public Health Crisis.pdf (1.33 mb)
• All-Party Group Meetings During Public Health Crisis – Updated Guidance 5 August 2021
• Rectification Procedure
• Complaints Investigation Procedures
• Registered Interests of the Northern Ireland Assembly Commissioner for Standards
• Working Group on an Unacceptable Behaviours Policy - Report on the development of an Unacceptable Behaviours Policy