258 Access to meetings and documents of standing advisory council and conference on agreed syllabus of religious education.E+W
(1)This section applies to—
(a)any conference convened for the purpose set out in paragraph 1 or 12 of the Fifth Schedule to the M1Education Act 1944 (procedure for preparing and bringing into operation an agreed syllabus of religious education) or section 11(8) of the M2Education Reform Act 1988 (standing advisory councils on religious education), and
(b)any standing advisory council constituted under that section of that Act.
(2)Regulations 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) above may apply to—
(a)committees appointed by local education authorities under paragraph 2 of the Fifth Schedule to the M3Education Act 1944,
(b)sub-committees appointed by conferences under that Schedule, and
(c)representative groups on councils appointed under section 12(4) of the Education Reform Act 1988,
as they apply to conferences and councils.