The Local Authorities (Executive Arrangements) (Access to Information) (England) Regulations 2000

Individual executive decisions

9.—(1) Where an executive member or officer receives a report, which he intends to take into consideration when he makes a key decision, he shall not make the that decision until the report has been available for public inspection, pursuant to paragraph (2), for at least three clear days.

(2) Subject to regulation 21, the member or officer making the decision referred to in paragraph (1) shall ensure that the proper officer makes the report referred to in that paragraph available for inspection by the public as soon as is reasonably practicable after that officer or member receives it.

(3) Where a report has been submitted to an executive member or officer with a view to it being considered by him when he makes a key decision, the person who submitted the report shall, as soon as is reasonably practicable, supply a copy of it to the chairman of every relevant overview and scrutiny committee or where there is no chairman to every member of the relevant overview and scrutiny committee.

(4) The proper officer shall, in any report required by paragraph (2) to be available for inspection by the public include a list of background papers for the report or part of the report, and shall ensure that sufficient copies of the background papers are available, or that facilities exist for the production of sufficient copies of those papers, to meet every reasonable request from members of the public for them.