4.17 As set out above, local authority functions are split by statute between executive and non-executive functions.
4.18 Within the non-executive functions, some are reserved to full Council (e.g. setting Council Tax, initiating local legislation, approving the Budget and the Strategic Policy Framework, appointing the Leader, Committees and the Head of Paid Service). Some functions are given by statute to specific Committees (e.g. the powers of Standards Committee, of Overview and Scrutiny Committees, or of Licensing Committee). Where such functions are not reserved by statute to Council or to a particular Committee, then Council can delegate those functions to a Committee, as it does with Development control functions, and where the Council can delegate a function to a Committee, it can equally delegate that function to a Joint Committee.
4.19 On the executive side, there are no functions which are reserved by law to the Cabinet as a body, and the Leader or the Cabinet can delegate any executive functions to a Committee of Cabinet or to individual Cabinet Members (as "portfolio holders"). Again, where the Leader or Cabinet can delegate a function to a Committee of Cabinet or to an individual Cabinet Member, so it can equally delegate that function to a Joint Committee. However, note that where such an executive power is delegated to a Joint Committee, it remains an executive function, and so can only be decided within any authority's area within that authority's approved Budget and Strategic Policy Framework.