Standards Committee - Tuesday 10 February 2026, 7:00pm - Epping Forest District Council webcasts

Standards Committee
Tuesday, 10th February 2026 at 7:00pm 

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Cllr Bob Church - 0:00:00
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Ladies and gentlemen, members, we have the meeting of the Standards Committee this evening.

1 Apologies for Absence

Cllr Bob Church - 0:01:57
agenda item one do we have apologies for absence thank you chairman we have
Gary Woodhall - 0:02:08
apologies from councillor Kaufman Anthony Brooks who is the independent
one of the two independent members and Nigel Bedford and parish councillor John
Cllr Bob Church - 0:02:33
Barbara. Thank you. Agenda item two. Do we have substitute

2 Substitute Members

members? Yes, chairman, we have Councillor Mwaki substituting
Gary Woodhall - 0:02:40
for Councillor Will Kaufman tonight. There was a notification while I was in the briefing.

3 Minutes

Cllr Bob Church - 0:02:46
Thank you. Agenda item three. The minutes which you will find on pages four to nine.
We are to ask to confirm the minutes of the last meeting of the committee held on the 10th of November 2020.
I don't think we have any members here.
Just Councillor Morgan, Chairman.
Oh we do, Richard.
Gary Woodhall - 0:03:07
I was thinking about that.
Do you confirm it?
No.
No comments?
Cllr Bob Church - 0:03:15
No.
Thank you.

4 Declarations of Interest

Agenda item 4, declarations of interest.
We have no declarations of interest.

5 Disclosable Pecuniary Interests - Dispensations

Agenda item 5, disclosable pecuniary interests dispensations.
We are to consider the attached report to grant three dispensations under the Localism
Act 2011.
Barbara Beardwell - 0:03:55
Thank you chair and good evening members. The first item as the chair said is for
members to consider a number of dispensations. A dispensation is
something which is granted under the Constitution to the Standards Committee
to allow members who would have a disclosable pecuniary interest in the
matter to participate and vote in an item in circumstances where otherwise
as they would be excluded.
And as members would be aware,
we have the budget item next week.
Council will be asked to approve the council tax next week.
Most, if not all, I would imagine,
residents within Epping Forest District Council area,
members would have an interest in land within the area.
and in my view that would constitute
a disclosable pecuniary interest
and without a dispensation might impede their ability
to participate and vote on setting the council tax
as council taxpayers themselves.
So I'm asking the Standards Committee
to go on to dispensation to allow members
to participate and vote on that item
as otherwise a majority of the members
of the council, if not all members of the council, may be considered excluded from doing
that. So that's really to enable members to participate and vote on the item when otherwise
they might have a disposable pecuniary interest. The next dispensation is one that I think
that members probably don't need because my view is that being in receipt of a members'
allowance isn't an office or employment which members hold for profit or gain, it's an allowance
that's merely, in my view, compensation for time spent on public duties. If it was employment,
then I think no doubt the salary scales would be somewhat higher. But for the avoidance
of that, as we're asking for a dispensation on the council tax item, there's no harm in
including that as well, and that's something I'd normally ask for as a monitoring officer.
I've made the date of the expiry. It's just an abstract date. You can give a dispensation
foot to four years, but I thought that, given LGR, a sensible date might well be the 31st
of July, 2028. If for any reason things change, then the Standards Committee sometime in 2028
could be asked to consider a further dispensation. The last dispensation I'm asking the Standards
Committee to grant is in the event of any member of the Council who leases, has a tendency
or lease of council property, the living on the council's property, to vote on general
housing matters relating to the council's housing stock, so long as it's not anything
relating to their individual tenancy or lease. I'm not aware of any circumstances where it
might arise, but I've spoken to the Director of Housing, who tells me that it could happen
from time to time and it would be no bad thing to include that dispensation so that there's
no suggestion in future as to why a member participates in a vote on the general housing
matter if they happen to live in a council tenancy. So really that's as far as it goes.
The reason I'm bringing it to the Standards Committee is because the constitution delegated
that function under the Localism Act to the Standards Committee so we need the Standards
committee to approve the dispensations. Thank you Barbara. Members do you have
Cllr Bob Church - 0:08:01
Cllr Ken Williamson - 0:08:09
any comments? Yes, Councillor William Williamson. Yes, thank you
Chair, thank you to the officers for bringing this to our attention. I think
it was something none of us had actually thought about and it's very very
important. I think 1a could have been dealt with in a different way and they could have
exempted us from the council tax but I understand why they haven't so I'm quite happy with all
three of these dispensations.
Councillor Nweki.
Cllr Bob Church - 0:08:38
Cllr Chidi Nweke - 0:08:42
Thank you, Chair. Just wondering when was the last time such dispensation was granted?
When was the last time such dispensation was granted?
Has it been done before in these chambers?
Barbara Beardwell - 0:08:55
I'm not aware that the dispensations have been sought previously.
Does that answer your question, Councillor Nowicki?
It does and it doesn't because if this –
I'm not sure you want to quit all that looking.
No. Sorry about that. I'm just wondering if this is the first time it's happening,
Cllr Chidi Nweke - 0:09:37
how has been – was it managed before now that we are granting these positions?
Barbara Beardwell - 0:09:43
I just don't have that information. I've been monitoring officer here since last May. I
wasn't here when the budget was passed previously, but in my view a dispensation is required,
Cllr Bob Church - 0:10:04
hence the report. I've read the dispensations and I believe
they strengthen the situation we have, I think we will benefit by passing these.
Should we go to a vote, members? All those in favour of granting the three dispensations
under the Localism Act 2011 as attached on the agenda at pages 10 to 12, could we please
vote if you are in favour. Agreed Chairman. Thank you members that's passed
unanimously.

6 Arrangements for Breaches of the Members' Code of Conduct

Cllr Bob Church - 0:10:47
Agenda item six we have the arrangements for breaches of the members code of
conduct you will find them on pages 13 to 40 of the agenda. We are to consider
the attached report regarding the arrangements for the assessment, investigation and determination
of complaints that a member of the council or a member of a town or parish council has breached
the member's code of conduct and hearings procedure. Members have you read and do you
have any comments on agenda item six?
Independent - 0:11:35
Q. Has the monitoring officer talked to the other local authorities? Given the impending
local government review, is there a similarity in terms of the process that you are suggesting?
Secondly, do you, presumably somewhere in the process, reserve the right to refer a
complaint to the police or another regulatory body if there was something criminal or a
I didn't quite catch the first question.
Barbara Beardwell - 0:12:05
Independent - 0:12:06
Has the monitoring officer talked to monitoring officers in other local authorities in Essex
about their process?
Because given the impending local government review and the mergers, are all the processes
very similar across the Essex authorities?
Barbara Beardwell - 0:12:21
And I don't know the detail of the other processes.
Certainly the process that I'm recommending in my view is common practise with most monitoring
officers, certainly in the councils I've worked in, they follow similar arrangements to this.
I think it's really important to have a clear, understandable process which works when you
get a complaint in so that members, the members of the public, complainants, subject members,
have a clear process that they can see and they can follow it through. If it's approved
by the standards committee tonight,
the revised arrangements,
they will go on the council's website
together with the members code of conduct.
And we've also got a revised,
well a new complaint form
where if somebody wants to make a complaint
under the members code of conduct,
whether it's this council's
or one of the town or parish council's codes,
It will guide them through what they need to put in.
Like for instance, if you want to do a complaint
under a code of conduct, it needs to be against
a named member or members of the council
or a town of parish council.
And it needs to refer specifically to paragraphs
of the relevant code of conduct that it's considered
that has been breached, for instance,
you can't complain against the decision of the council
that you don't like, or the way that a council
might have dealt with something, it has to be,
it's quite narrow, the focus of it,
and people don't always recognise that,
but hopefully by having a complete procedure,
it will smooth the process, and also with having clear
and defined stages, like for instance,
with any new complaints, they suggested in the new procedure
that the monitoring officer will carry out
an initial validation, and that will be,
is it against a named member or members?
Yeah, was that member in office and acting,
as they're acting as a counsellor at the time
of the complaint, because if it's a neighbour complaint,
say and the fact that one of the neighbours might be a parish counsellor or Epping counsellor,
it's nothing to do with the Member's Code of Conduct. The third test would be if taken
at its highest, could, not should, could it amount to a breach of the code? If the answer
to all those three questions is yes, then going forward the procedure will be that if
it's a parish council complaint, we'll seek the comments of the parish clerk on it, we'll
the comments of the subject member and I will form an initial view as to how I think the
complaint should be taken forward and then I'll consult with an independent person and
the chair of the standards committee as to any comments as to whether they agree with
my view, they've got further comments on it or whatever. It will follow a recognised process
and people will know where they stand with it all.
And as far as the hearings procedure goes,
they will, if we have a hearing,
it will guide how we deal with the hearings,
what happens before the hearing, at the hearing,
so that we have, I think it will assist members
who are sitting on any complaints subcommittee
in the future as to what will happen,
what's expected of them,
what the different stages will be.
So that's what I'm really suggesting in there.
And the other thing that's in there is that I'm suggesting that if a complaint goes out
to investigation and the outcome of the investigation is that there is a finding of breach, the
next stage is that the outcome of the investigation goes to a subcommittee of the standards committee
and they decide whether it should go to a hearing
or whether say for instance,
some other action is more appropriate,
such as training or apology or some other informal remedy.
And then only if members decide it should go to a hearing,
then do we have a hearing.
But the decision on it is one of the members
of the committee.
Thank you, Barbara. I think that's very well explained. Members, do we have a question?
Cllr Bob Church - 0:17:16
First, I will ask Councillor Rackham. Thank you, Chair. Can I ask, as the last time
Cllr Sheree Rackham - 0:17:23
we met was 2020, why is this now coming to the forefront? Do we have complaints we need
to deal with, or is it just because it's something that's been flagged up as something that we
Barbara Beardwell - 0:17:39
need now to review? Under the Constitution, the function of approving
the members' Code of Conduct arrangements, so the arrangements for investigation, consideration,
determination of complaints, is a function of the Standards Committee, as is review of
those arrangements. And in my view, as your Monitoring Officer, I think those arrangements
should be reviewed from time to time and as they haven't been, I think it's timely to
bring a report to the standards committee for them to do the task that's delegated to
them in the constitution. So there's no trigger which has made it happen, it's just I think
as much of a governance, this is something that the committee should look at from time
to time, if that answers the question.
Thank you.
Thank you, Barbara.
Councillor Nowacki.
Cllr Bob Church - 0:18:28
Councillor Nowacki, a question from you.
Thank you, Chair.
Cllr Chidi Nweke - 0:18:33
It's not much of a question, but I think just to highlight an oversight on the document
here.
On page number 31, the second paragraph seems to indicate that the monitoring officer of
of open forest district council is still Natalia Botang.
So.
Yeah, that's in the previous arrangements,
Barbara Beardwell - 0:18:58
which are included just for completeness.
When the previous monitoring officer was Natalie Botang.
But this isn't, we're not asking you to approve
the arrangements which we have at the moment.
That's purely the previous arrangements
which you just put in for comparison.
Thank you.
Question from Councillor Williamson.
Thank you, Chair.
Cllr Ken Williamson - 0:19:27
It's 1235 on pages 23 and 24.
The subcommittee could recommend to the members group leader that he or she be removed from
any or all committees or subcommittees of the Council.
If that was to go on for more than six months, they'd in fact be excluded.
Is that if it went on for six months they would in fact then be excluded having not attended a committee meeting
Is that the intention at the bottom of 23 and top of 24?
Barbara Beardwell - 0:19:59
If it had gone on for more than six months
They would only be excluded if they haven't gone to a council meeting or any other committees or outside bodies
To which they're appointed
so
This answer the question
Cllr Ken Williamson - 0:20:18
In fact, we're disqualifying them we are we are sacking them or whatever the phrase is. Yeah
Thank you
Yes, Councillor Bromwich
Thank You chair. I'm just a
Cllr Tom Bromwich - 0:20:28
procedural question really on the
declaration of interest at the beginning I I note that the
this is about a member of Buck still parish council, is that correct as
Barbara Beardwell - 0:20:44
This is our standards and procedure.
Cllr Bob Church - 0:20:53
It's nothing to do with anything else at this moment in time.
So this is how we operate.
That's fine.
I'm just, thank you, Chair.
Cllr Tom Bromwich - 0:21:02
I'm just wondering if this has been anonymized, what if one of us does have a declaration
of interest to declare if one of us does know the person that this is concerning?
Barbara Beardwell - 0:21:16
I'm not sure what interests you could be thinking of but these are purely procedures which would
apply to any complaint from any parish or town council or indeed the district council.
There's nothing in this that's specific to any council.
Cllr Tom Bromwich - 0:21:41
Sorry if I can be a bit stick on this but it says on page 41 and very happy to be corrected
and for it to be clarified that allegations that a member of Buckhurst Hill Parish Council
Councillor Bromwich, that's not part of this agenda item.
It's input, that's the bit we intend to go into private session on.
Sorry. That is what we'll be discussing in private session.
Cllr Bob Church - 0:22:09
Barbara Beardwell - 0:22:14
The other two points in here, members, are that in the event
a matter goes out to investigation,
we'll then have an investigation subcommittee
which will make a decision as to whether it goes
to a hearing or whether it's disposed of in some other way.
And if they decide that it goes to a hearing,
either way you will need a subcommittee of members
of the standards committee.
Now, if standards committee are already meeting,
you'd all be here.
but if that was the only item that we needed to do,
what I'm suggesting is that the committee
delegate authority to me in consultation
with the chair of the standards committee
to convene a subcommittee, a complaint subcommittee
or investigation subcommittee if we ever needed one.
So that's just the general efficiency thing
because there'd be otherwise as it stands now,
if we needed one, we'd have to call you all in
in order to appoint one,
which may be not the best use of your time.
Councillor Rackham.
Just a question here.
Cllr Sheree Rackham - 0:23:28
If we were to discuss someone in Buckhurst Hill,
where does that put you as a Buckhurst Hill Councillor?
We're not discussing anything outside of this agenda item
at the moment.
Cllr Bob Church - 0:23:39
to a further meeting and move on to commission meetings.
That will...
This is not part of this item.
You will have an opportunity to discuss this on the next item.
Okay.
What we're asking now is for members to agree
the refined, streamlined, more robust arrangements for the breaches of the Member's Code of
Conduct as laid out on pages 13 to 40.
Mr Noeke.
Thank you.
Cllr Chidi Nweke - 0:24:23
Just reading the paragraph about who the independent person is, I just wondered how do we choose
who the independent person will be and what is the process of identifying who will be
that person? Because it's not quite clear here how is the process of choosing the independent
person to sit.
Barbara Beardwell - 0:24:49
The subcommittee needs to be proposedly constituted. If the standards were appointing a subcommittee,
they would do that as and when the need arose.
What I'm suggesting is that that's delegated
to the monetary officer, but it would be done in,
you would do it in a course of proportionality
and you would consider conflicts of interest
and anything else at the time,
but you do it in consultation with the chair
of the standards committee.
Thank you, Barbara.
Cllr Bob Church - 0:25:31
Question from Councillor Williamson.
There's not so much a question, Chair.
Cllr Ken Williamson - 0:25:34
We have independent persons already appointed
to the Standards Committee,
so presumably it'd be one of those.
Yeah, at the moment we have two independent persons.
Barbara Beardwell - 0:25:44
We have a lady called June Clare
and a man called Anthony Brooks.
Then an independent person,
they're not a member of the Standards Committee.
the clues in the name, they're an independent person,
but the law requires that you consult the independent person
before you make any decision on any allegation
you decided to investigate.
What I'm suggesting in the arrangements
is that if a complaint is validated,
so I'm satisfied it's against the named member,
they were in office acting as a Councillor and it could take its highest amount to a
breach. I include consulting with the independent person at that stage as well, even though
the law, strictly speaking, doesn't require you to. It's common practise actually, would
all counsel where the monetary officer would consult with an independent person at each
stage.
Thank you, Barbara.
Cllr Bob Church - 0:26:53
It is really, if we appoint the subcommittee, it is for them to review and then recommend
whether it comes to the main standards committee.
Is that correct?
No.
In the event of that going to a hearing, the subcommittee would make a decision and then
Barbara Beardwell - 0:27:12
If any recommendations needed to be made,
they would be made from the subcommittee
direct to the full council.
Understood, thank you.
Cllr Bob Church - 0:27:24
Members, the arrangements for the breaches
of the members code of conduct
has laid out on page 13 to 40.
Could we have a vote on agreements to adopt them?
All in favour?
6, Chairman.
7, I think.
Councillor Morgan is a parish council rep, so I'm not sure he gets a vote.
Ah, 6 then.
Yep.
And those against?
None, Chairman.
And those that abstain?
Two, Chairman.
Cllr Bob Church - 0:28:04
Thank you, Members.
That Agenda Item 6 is passed.
Cllr Bob Church - 0:28:10
The recommendation is for clarity members.
it is as per the paper that the Standards Committee adopt A, B, C, D and E of the recommendation.
Have we agreed with that? Same. Agreed.
has passed

7 Dates of Future Meetings

Cllr Bob Church - 0:28:59
brings us to agenda items seven dates of future future meetings following the
decision of the council that the standards committee be convened to meet
only when there is business to be transacted that's in the minute of the
26th of April 2016 that refers there are no formal meetings arranged for the
remainder of the municipal year however further meetings of the committee can be
arranged if required
Barbara would you like to speak on this yeah just just to be up to speed members
Barbara Beardwell - 0:29:41
At the back end of 2024, government conduct
to the consultation exercise with all local authorities
were asked if they wish to participate in it.
On changes to the standards arrangements,
various things were included, as I recall,
in the consultation, such as whether there should be
a standard code of conduct for all councils
rather than adoption of different codes,
whether the arrangements are sufficiently robust,
whether there should be provision to suspend the member
or anything like that,
or whether there should be a standards central body
to hear serious complaints and so on and so forth.
I don't know.
Well, I'm presuming that this council didn't
specifically respond to the consultation.
They didn't need to,
but following the outcome of the consultation,
government indicated about three months ago
that they were minded to bring in revised legislation
on member code of conduct arrangements.
Now, whether they do that and when they do that
and what that will contain, then I don't know, who knows?
but I thought I'd just bring you up to speed on that.
And the other thing that I was discussing
with Councillor Church now is that the possibility
of bringing from time to time a report
to standards committee, just advising members
as to what complaints we'd had in the last three months,
six months or whatever, where we were with them,
what the disposal was, just so that if nothing,
and they would be redactors,
So there wouldn't be individual names on there,
but it would just keep members of standards committee
up to speed with matters which were going on
within their remit.
Nothing else so that if members get correspondence
on the email or whatever,
they've got some idea what it's all about.
And so what I'll do,
and you probably be at the next meeting.
So we need to talk about that,
but I bring an update on where we are with complaints
in the last, well, say the last year or so,
and then after that, it will be periodically,
and so on and so forth, just so that members are aware
of what's going on in their area of remit.
Thank you, Barbara.
Yes, I think that's a good way forward.
Cllr Bob Church - 0:32:23
It enables us to know what's going on
before it comes to standards committee, enlightens us.
Any questions on that item?
Councillor Bromwich.
Sorry, I think that's a brilliant idea.
Cllr Tom Bromwich - 0:32:40
I think while you say it will be redacted,
yeah, I think that would be a good idea.
Would we be able to have a geographic,
like specification about where these complaints
are coming from because it would be good to see
where some parts of the district are falling short
from adhering to the members code of conduct.
I think that's a very good point.
Barbara Beardwell - 0:33:04
How I don't visit it, it would be divided
between complaints against members of this council,
which hopefully, well, happily are very small, if any,
and parish town council.
So you'd have, you start say with Epping Forest,
and then you go on to the different parish and towns
councils, but you might say,
ex -Parish council complained against
X number of members of the council
without identifying them and where you were.
So it could be awaiting validation.
It could be consultation with the chair
of the standards committee and independent person.
It could be referred to investigation or whatever.
So you'd be able to see which parish council it was,
how many parish counsellors were involved in it
and where you were with regard to the determination
of the complaint.
So you'd have the information there.
And then if members wanted any further information,
they could obviously approach me.
Thank you for that clarification Barbara.
Members will have to, ah yes, Councillor Markham.
Chair, thank you.
Cllr Maria Markham - 0:34:14
Just out of interest, what has been the process previously?
Now we're sort of collating complaints going forward.
what has happened on previous occasions with complaints,
what has been the process?
And are councillors notified
if there's been a complaint coming?
Are they automatically notified and by whom?
Barbara Beardwell - 0:34:36
I can't answer for exactly what's happened in the past
because I didn't have a handover
with the previous monitoring officer,
but I would imagine that councillors were notified
and they were dealt with in accordance
with what arrangements existed at the time.
But I'm anxious really, now I'm the council's
monetary officer, I guess really I feel that I do need
to have, under constitution, these functions are functions
of the standards committee and I think members need
to be aware of that and I need the sort of help and guidance
from members as to how they want things to go forward.
And the way to do that is to have members in the room
and talk about it now.
Thank you Barbara.
Councillor Williamson.
Thank you chair.
If it helps, I did make a complaint
Cllr Ken Williamson - 0:35:33
against another district Councillor some years ago.
And I put my case forward,
he or she put their case forward
and it finished up with an apology.
So I think that's the normal way,
or was the normal way forward.
I think it's fair to say, I mean,
Barbara Beardwell - 0:35:53
I've dealt with a lot of different
town parish council complaints in previous authorities
and the overwhelming majority of them
end up with, I don't know, further action
or an apology or training or some other informal action.
It's very, very few which go to a formal investigation
because for lots of reasons you've got the cost and you've got the delay and you've got the the
sort of tension sometimes positions get more entrenched and only the really the the more
serious ones would ever go to investigation a formal investigation that is. Thank you Barbara.
Cllr Bob Church - 0:36:35
Councillor Rackham you have a question. Thank you chair I'm really really pleased to hear that
Cllr Sheree Rackham - 0:36:38
because I don't want it to become something that, you know,
we've got to honour what our councillors do, we really do.
And, you know, I've been out there as a councillor
and I know there's a lot of tit for tat
that goes on within parish within,
not so much in Loughton town, we're very good where we are,
but, you know, in other parishes and other town councils.
And I do worry that, you know,
someone can get hit up about something
and then put a complaint in.
And I'm pleased to hear that, you know,
we don't often take it to a level where, you know,
it does land with, you know,
serious consequences for that Councillor.
I mean, I've been at different authorities.
Barbara Beardwell - 0:37:19
I was a monetary officer at Hampshire County Council
for 14 years, and then I've done four, I think,
interim contracts since then.
But in my time as a monetary officer,
I've only ever known three complaints
go to a formal investigation and that's in 17 years.
But there's been quite a lot of complaints that have come over my desk.
So I think that gives you some idea.
Thank you, Barbara.
Cllr Bob Church - 0:37:50
So everybody understands now the way forward on that point?
Thank you.
Now, agenda item 8, we have exclusion of public and press.

8 Exclusion of Public and Press

the exclusion to consider whether under section 100
bracket A bracket four of the local government act 1972,
the public and press should be excluded from the meeting
for the items of business set out below on grounds
that they will involve the likely disclosure
of exempt information as defined in the paragraphs
of part one of schedule 12A of the Act indicated.
Do we have an agreement on that, Councillors?
Agreed.
That's agreed, thank you.
Barbara Beardwell
Monitoring Officer & Strategic Legal Advisor
Epping Forest District Council
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Cllr Tom Bromwich
District councillor for North Weald Bassett ward
Independent
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Cllr Bob Church
District councillor for Buckhurst Hill West ward
Conservative Party
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Cllr Maria Markham
District councillor for Waltham Abbey South and Rural ward
Independent
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Cllr Chidi Nweke
District councillor for Loughton Roding ward
Loughton Residents Association
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Cllr Sheree Rackham
District councillor for Loughton Roding ward
Loughton Residents Association
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Cllr Ken Williamson
District councillor for Buckhurst Hill West ward
Conservative Party
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Gary Woodhall
Team Manager - Democratic and Electoral Services
Epping Forest District Council
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