PART 4 E+WRecording of executive decisions and inspection of related papers or documents

Inspection of documents following executive decisionsE+W

14.—(1) Subject to regulation 20, after a meeting of a decision-making body at which an executive decision has been made, or after an individual member or an officer has made an executive decision the proper officer must ensure that a copy of—

(a)any records prepared in accordance with regulations 12 or 13; and

(b)any report considered at the meeting or, as the case may be, considered by the individual member or officer and relevant to a decision recorded in accordance with regulations 12 or 13 or, where only part of the report is relevant to such a decision, that part,

must be available for inspection by members of the public, as soon as is reasonably practicable, at the offices of the relevant local authority, and on that authority's website, if it has one.

(2) Where a request on behalf of a newspaper is made for a copy of any of the documents available for public inspection under paragraph (1), those documents must be supplied for the benefit of the newspaper by the relevant local authority on payment by the newspaper to the local authority of postage, copying or other necessary charge for transmission.