Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980

96 Public access to information

(1) The Secretary of State shall send to a council in respect of whose area a register is maintained under section 95 above—

(a) a copy of that register; and

(b) such amendments to it as he may from time to time consider appropriate.

(2) It shall be the duty of a council to whom amendments to a register are sent under subsection (1)(b) above to incorporate the amendments in their copy of the register.

(3) A copy of a register sent to a council under this section shall be available at the council's principal office for inspection by any member of the public at all reasonable hours.

(4) If any member of the public requires a council to supply him with a copy of any information contained in such a copy of a register, the council shall supply him with a copy of that information on payment of such reasonable charge for making it as the council may determine.