The Local Authorities (Overview and Scrutiny Committees) (England) Regulations 2009

Exemptions from publication requirements, etc

15.—(1) In publishing the document the executive—

(a) must exclude any confidential information, and

(b) may exclude any relevant exempt information.

(2) In providing a copy of the document to a member of the local authority the executive may exclude any confidential information or relevant exempt information.

(3) Where information is excluded under paragraph (1) or (2), the executive, in publishing, or providing a copy of, the document—

(a) may replace so much of the document as discloses the information with a summary which does not disclose that information, and

(b) must do so if, in consequence of excluding the information, the document published, or copy provided, would be misleading or not reasonably comprehensible.

(4) If by virtue of any of paragraphs (1) to (3) an executive, in publishing or providing a copy of the document—

(a) excludes information, or

(b) replaces part of the document with a summary,

it is nevertheless to be taken for the purposes of section 21B of the 2000 Act or, where the requirement to publish or provide a copy arises under Part 2 of these Regulations, that Part, to have published or provided a copy of the response.