Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 65)

[F1 Part IIIA S Access to Meetings and Documents of Local Authorities, Committees and Sub-Committees

Textual Amendments

F1 Pt. IIIA (ss. 50A–50K) inserted by Local Government (Access to Information) Act 1985 (c. 43, SIF 81:1, 2), ss. 2(1), 3

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Pt. IIIA extended (with modifications.) (8.9.2000) by 2000 asp 10, s. 9, Sch. 2 para. 12; S.S.I. 2000/312, art. 2

50C Inspection of minutes and other documents after meetings. S

(1) After a meeting of a local authority the following documents shall be open to inspection by members of the public at the offices of the authority until the expiration of the period of six years beginning with the date of the meeting, namely—

(a) the minutes, or a copy of the minutes, of the meeting, excluding so much of the minutes of the proceedings during which the meeting was not open to the public as discloses exempt information;

(b) where applicable, a summary under subsection (2) below;

(c) a copy of the agenda for the meeting; and

(d) a copy of so much of any report supplied to members of the authority for the meeting as relates to any item during consideration of which the meeting was open to the public.

(2) Where, in consequence of the exclusion of parts of the minutes which disclose exempt information, the document open to inspection under subsection (1)(a) above does not provide members of the public with a reasonably fair and coherent record of the whole or part of the proceedings, the proper officer shall make a written summary of the proceedings or the part, as the case may be, which provides such a record without disclosing the exempt information.]

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C2 S. 50C applied (temp. from 6.4.1995 until 1.4.1996) by S.I. 1995/789, art. 2, Sch. para. 3