Local Government Finance Act 1982

Valid from 27/08/1991

[F1 18A Additional publicity for auditors’ immediate reports. E+W

(1) As from the time when, by virtue of section 18(3) above, an immediate report made under section 15(3) above is received by a body or by the chairman of a parish meeting, any member of the public shall be entitled—

(a) to inspect the report at all reasonable times and without payment and to make a copy of it, or of any part of it, and

(b) to require the body or chairman to supply to him a copy of the report, or of any part of it, on payment of a reasonable sum.

(2) When such a report is so received by a body or by the chairman of a parish meeting, the body or chairman shall forthwith publish in one or more local newspapers circulating in the area of the body or meeting a notice which—

(a) identifies the subject-matter of the report, and

(b) states that any member of the public—

(i) may inspect the report, and

(ii) may make a copy of it, or of any part of it,

between such times and at such place or places as are specified in the notice;

and, where the report is so received by a body, the body shall in addition forthwith supply a copy of the report to every member of the body.

(3) Any person having the custody of an immediate report who—

(a) obstructs a person in the exercise of any right conferred by subsection (1)(a) above, or

(b) refuses to supply a copy of the report, or (as the case may be) of any part of it, to a person entitled to such a copy by virtue of subsection (1)(b) above,

shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.

(4) Any person who fails to comply with any requirement of subsection (2) above shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.

(5) An auditor who has sent an immediate report to a body or to the chairman of a parish meeting under section 18(3) above—

(a) may notify any person he thinks fit of the fact that he has made such a report, and

(b) may supply a copy of the report, or of any part of it, to any person he thinks fit.

(6) Nothing in this section applies in relation to a health service body.

(7) Nothing in this section is to be construed as affecting the operation of section 18(5) above.]

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 18A inserted by by Local Government Finance (Publicity for Auditors' Reports) Act 1991 (c. 15, SIF 81:1), s. 1(2) (with s. 1(5))