Local Government Act 1988

6 (1) Section 30 (reports on investigations) shall be amended as follows.

(2) After subsection (4) there shall be inserted—

“(4A) Subject to subsection (7) below, the authority concerned shall supply a copy of the report to any person on request if he pays such charge as the authority may reasonably require.”

(3) In subsection (5) (not later than one week after receiving report, authority to give public notice of date from which report is available for inspection)—

(a) for “one week” there shall be substituted “two weeks”,

(b) for “the report will be available for inspection as provided by subsection (4)” there shall be substituted “copies of the report will be available as provided by subsections (4) and (4A)”, and

(c) for “after the giving of the public notice” there shall be substituted “not more than one week after the public notice is first given”.

(4) In subsection (7) (Local Commissioner may direct that report shall not be subject to certain provisions) for “and (5) above about its publication” there shall be substituted “, (4A) and (5) above”.

(5) This paragraph applies to any report received by an authority in pursuance of section 30(1)(c) after the coming into force of this Schedule.