Part V Miscellaneous

Access to information

I197 Background papers.

1

In section 100D of the M1Local Government Act 1972 (inspection of background papers) for subsection (1) there is substituted—

1

Subject, in the case of section 100C(1), to subsection (2) below, if and so long as copies of the whole or part of a report for a meeting of a principal council are required by section 100B(1) or 100C(1) above to be open to inspection by members of the public—

a

those copies shall each include a copy of a list, compiled by the proper officer, of the background papers for the report or the part of the report, and

b

at least one copy of each of the documents included in that list shall also be open to inspection at the offices of the council.

2

In subsection (2) the words “of the list, or” are omitted.