7.—(1) The following provisions of the 1972 Act shall apply with respect to meetings of the joint committee as though references to a principal council were references to the joint committee:
(a)sections 100A (admission to meetings of principal councils), with the exception of subsections (6), (7) and (8);
(b)section 100I(1) (exempt information); and
(c)paragraphs 1 to 11 of Schedule 12A (access to information: exempt information).
(2) Where the public have been excluded from the whole or part of a meeting of the joint committee in accordance with the provisions referred to in sub-paragraph (1), the joint committee may exclude co-opted members from that meeting or (as the case may be) the relevant part of that meeting.