Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009

3 Monitoring boards, courts boards and youth offending teams

(1) A principal local authority has a duty to promote understanding of the following among local people—

(a) the functions of the bodies mentioned in subsection (2);

(b) how a member of the public can become a member of, or take part in, the work of those bodies;

(c) what is involved in doing so.

(2) The bodies referred to in subsection (1) are—

(a) an independent monitoring board established under section 6 of the Prison Act 1952 (c. 52) for a prison in the principal local authority’s area;

(b) a visiting committee established under section 152 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (c. 33) for a removal centre in the principal local authority’s area;

(c) a courts board for an area which, or any part of which, coincides with or falls within the principal local authority’s area;

(d) a youth offending team for an area which, or any part of which, coincides with or falls within the principal local authority’s area.