The Local Government (Executive Arrangements) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015

Exemptions from publication requirements, etc

37.—(1) In publishing the document the executive—

(a) must exclude any confidential information; and

(b) may exclude any relevant exempt information.

(2) In providing a copy of the document to a member of the council the executive may exclude any confidential or relevant exempt information.

(3) Where information is excluded under paragraph (1) or (2), the executive, in publishing or providing a copy of the document—

(a) may replace so much of the document as discloses the information with a summary which does not disclose the information; and

(b) must do so if, in consequence of excluding the information, the document published, or copy provided, would be misleading or not reasonably comprehensible.

(4) If by virtue of any of paragraphs (1) to (3) an executive, in publishing or providing a copy of the document—

(a) excludes information; or

(b) replaces part of the document with a summary, it is nevertheless to be taken for the purposes of section 32 of the 2014 Act (duty of council or executive to respond to overview and scrutiny committee) to have published or provided a copy of the response.