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The Local Authorities (Executive Arrangements) (Meetings and Access to Information) (England) Regulations 2012

Consolidated Text Cited authorities 32 Cited in Amendments 5 Related
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JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 2012/2089
Year2012
  • These Regulations may be cited as the Local Authorities (Executive Arrangements) (Meetings and Access to Information) (England) Regulations 2012 and come into force on 10th September 2012.
  • In these Regulations—
  • Subject to regulation 4, a meeting of a decision-making body must be held in public.
    • (1) A meeting of a decision-making body must be open to the public except to the extent that the public are excluded under paragraph (2) .it is likely, in view of the nature of the business to be transacted or the nature of the proceedings, that if members of the public were present during that item, confidential information would be disclosed to them in breach of the obligation of confidence;the decision-making body concerned passes a resolution to exclude the public during that item where it is likely, in view of the nature of the item of business, that if members of the public were present during that item, exempt information would be disclosed to them; ora lawful power is used to exclude a member or members of the public in order to maintain orderly conduct or prevent misbehaviour at a meeting.identify the proceedings, or the part of the proceedings to which it applies, andstate, by reference to the descriptions in Schedule 12A to the 1972 Act (access to information: exempt information) , the description of exempt information giving rise to the exclusion of the public.(4) The public may only be excluded under sub-paragraph (a) or (b) of paragraph (2) for the part or parts of the meeting during which it is likely that confidential information or exempt information would be disclosed.(5) Without prejudice to any power of exclusion to suppress or prevent disorderly conduct or other misbehaviour at a meeting, the decision-making body is not to have the power to exclude members of the public from a meeting while it is open to the public.which can be used without that person's presence at the meeting, andwhich enable persons not present at the meeting to see or hear the proceedings at the meeting as it takes place or later.(5B) While the meeting is open to the public, any person attending is to

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