The Town and Country Planning (Mayor of London) Order 2008

Access to representation hearings and documents

9.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) to (8), Part 5A of the Local Government Act 1972(1)(access to meetings and documents of certain authorities, committees and sub-committees) shall apply to–

(a) a representation hearing as it applies to a meeting of a principal council, and

(b) the Mayor in the conduct of a representation hearing as it applies to a principal council in the conduct of a meeting of that council.

(2) Sections 100E, 100F, 100G (1) and (2) and 100J do not apply.

(3) Section 100A (admission to meetings of principal councils) shall have effect–

(a) as if subsection (4) were omitted;

(b) if the Mayor excludes the public under subsection (2), as if subsections 5(a) and (b) apply to the Mayor;

(c) as if, in subsection (6)(a), the number of days for public notice of the time and place of the hearing were seven clear days.

(4) Section 100B (access to agenda and connected reports), shall have effect as if the number of days referred to in subsections (3) and (4)(a) for inspection of documents were seven clear days.

(5) Section 100G (principal councils to publish additional information) shall have effect as if–

(a) for the purposes of subsection (3) (summary of the rights to attend meetings and inspect documents), the reference to the offices of every principal council were a reference to the principal office of the Mayor; and

(b) subsection (4) applied only in respect of the summary kept under subsection (3).

(6) Section 100H(3) (acts which infringe copyright) shall have effect as if the Mayor were a principal council.

(7) Section 100K(1) shall have effect, in relation to the Mayor’s conduct of representation hearings, only for the purpose of the interpretation of, the expressions “copy”; “exempt information”; “information”; and “newspaper”.

(8) Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972 (access to information: exempt information) shall have effect as if any reference to “the authority” included references to the Mayor.

(1)

1972 c.70. Part 5A and Schedule 12A were inserted by the Local Government (Access to Information) Act 1985 (1985 c.43)