C1 Part V The Curriculum
Chapter III Religious education F2etc and worship
Word in Pt. 5 Ch. 3 heading inserted (30.4.2021) by Curriculum and Assessment (Wales) Act 2021 (asc 4), s. 84(1), Sch. 2 para. 5 (with savings and transitional provisions in S.I. 2022/111, regs. 1, 3)
Access to meetings and documents
397F3... Access to meetings and documents.
1
This section applies to—
a
any conference convened under any of paragraphs F4(A1) to 3 of Schedule 31, and
b
any standing advisory council F5... constituted under section 390.
2
Regulations F6made by the appropriate authority may make provision—
a
for meetings of conferences or councils to be, subject to prescribed exceptions, open to members of the public,
b
requiring conferences or councils to give notice, in such manner as may be prescribed, of the time and place of such meetings, and
c
requiring conferences or councils, at such time or times as may be prescribed—
i
to make available for inspection, or
ii
to provide on payment of such fee as they think fit (not exceeding the cost of supply),
copies of the agendas and reports for such meetings to members of the public.
3
Regulations made under subsection (2) may apply to—
a
committees appointed by F1local authorities under paragraph 4 of Schedule 31,
b
sub-committees appointed by conferences under that Schedule, and
c
representative groups on councils appointed under section 390(4),
as they apply to conferences and councils.
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The “appropriate authority” is—
a
in relation to a conference convened by a local authority in Wales, or a standing advisory council convened by a local authority in Wales, the Welsh Ministers;
b
in relation to a conference convened by a local authority in England, or a standing advisory council convened by a local authority in England, the Secretary of State.
Pt. V (ss. 350-410) modified (1.9.1999) by S.I. 1999/2262, reg. 57