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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 7E+WReports and recommendations

Access to meetings and documentsE+W

9(1)Where a public interest report or a recommendation is to be considered under paragraph 5 by a relevant authority to which the Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960 applies, the report or recommendation is not to be excluded from the matter supplied under section 1(4)(b) of that Act (supply of agenda etc to newspapers).E+W

(2)Part 5A (access to meetings and documents) of the Local Government Act 1972 applies to a meeting of the London Pensions Fund Authority under paragraph 5 as if the Authority were a principal council.

(3)Sub-paragraphs (4) to (6) apply in relation to the consideration under paragraph 5 or 6 of a public interest report or a recommendation by a relevant authority to which Part 5A (access to meetings and documents) of the Local Government Act 1972 applies.

(4)Information contained in the report or recommendation is not to be treated as exempt information for the purposes of that Part.

(5)The report or recommendation is not to be excluded—

(a)from the documents open to inspection under section 100B(1) of that Act (public access to agenda and reports before meetings), or

(b)from the matter supplied under section 100B(7) of that Act (supply of agenda etc to newspapers).

(6)Part 5A of the Local Government Act 1972 has effect in relation to the report or recommendation as if section 100C(1)(d) of that Act (public access to copies of reports for six years after meeting) were not limited to so much of the report or recommendation as relates to an item during which the meeting was open to the public.

(7)Information contained in a public interest report or a recommendation is not to be treated as exempt information for the purposes of any Act or instrument made under an Act that applies in relation to exempt information within the meaning of Part 5A of the Local Government Act 1972.

(8)References in this paragraph to a public interest report or a recommendation include any report on the report or recommendation.

Commencement Information

I1Sch. 7 para. 9 in force at 1.4.2015 by S.I. 2015/841, art. 3(p) (with Sch. para. 1) (as amended (27.6.2016) by S.I. 2016/675, art. 2)