Fire (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp 5)

[F1 SCHEDULE 1A S The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 1A inserted (8.8.2012) by Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 8), ss. 101(2), 129(1)(b) (with s. 122(4))

Public access S

11 (1) SFRS must ensure that its proceedings and those of its committees and sub-committees are held in public. S

(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(4) Despite sub-paragraph (3), SFRS may decide that all or part of any agenda, paper or report need not be published.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(b) the circumstances in which agendas, papers and reports need not be published.]