SCHEDULERULES FOR THE CONDUCT OF MEETINGS AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE
Admission to meetings
7.
(1)
The following provisions of the 1972 Act shall apply with respect to meetings of the joint committee as if references to a principal council were references to the joint committee—
(a)
section 100A (admission to meetings of principal councils)4, with the exception of subsections (6), (7) and (8);
(b)
section 100(I) (exempt information)5; and
(c)
paragraphs 1 to 11 of Schedule 12A (access to information: exempt information)6.
(2)
Where the public have been excluded from the whole or part of a meeting of the joint committee in accordance with any provision referred to in sub-paragraph (1), the joint committee may exclude co-opted members and observers from that meeting or (a the case may be) the relevant part of that meeting.