The Local Authorities (Executive Arrangements) (Access to Information) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2006

Additional rights of access to documents for members of local authorities

2.  In regulation 17 of the Local Authorities (Executive Arrangements) (Access to Information) (England) Regulations 2000(1)—

(a) in paragraphs (1) and (2), for “(3) and (4)”, substitute “(3) to (4)”; and

(b) for paragraph (3), substitute—

“(3) Paragraphs (1) and (2) do not require a document to be available for inspection if it appears to the proper officer that it discloses exempt information of a description falling within Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the 1972 Act (descriptions of exempt information: England)(2).

(3A) But paragraphs (1) and (2) do require (despite paragraph (3)) the document to be available for inspection if the information is information of a description for the time being falling within—

(a) paragraph 3 of Schedule 12A to the 1972 Act (except to the extent that the information relates to any terms proposed or to be proposed by or to the authority in the course of negotiations for a contract); or

(b) paragraph 6 of Schedule 12A to the 1972 Act.”.

(1)

S.I. 2000/3272, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

(2)

Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70) has been substituted by article 4 of, and the Schedule to, S.I. 2006/88 which comes into force on 1st March 2006.