F1SCHEDULE 1AThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service

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(1)

SFRS must ensure that its proceedings and those of its committees and sub-committees are held in public.

(2)

Despite sub-paragraph (1), SFRS or, as the case may be, any of its committees or sub-committees may decide to hold all or part of any proceedings in private.

(3)

SFRS must publish—

(a)

agendas for its proceedings and those of its committees and sub-committees,

(b)

the papers relating to those proceedings,

(c)

such reports of those proceedings as it thinks fit.

(4)

Despite sub-paragraph (3), SFRS may decide that all or part of any agenda, paper or report need not be published.

(5)

SFRS must publish a statement setting out—

(a)

the circumstances in which its proceedings and those of its committees and sub-committees may be held in private, and

(b)

the circumstances in which agendas, papers and reports need not be published.