Application of Schedule 12A of the 1972 Act to Standards Committees
4. Where a meeting of a standards committee, or a sub-committee of a standards committee, is convened to consider a matter referred under the provisions of section 70(4) or (5) or 71(2) of the Local Government Act 2000, the provisions of Part 4 to 6 of Schedule 12A to the 1972 Act will apply as if, after paragraph 18 of that Schedule, the following descriptions of exempt information were inserted
“(18A) Information which is subject to any obligations of confidentiality.
(18B) Information which relates in anyway to matters concerning national security.
(18C) The deliberations of a standards committee or of a sub-committee of a standards committee established under the provisions of Part 3 of the Local Government Act 2000 in reaching any finding on a matter referred to it.”.