The Religious Education (Meetings of Local Conferences and Councils) Regulations 1994

Confidentiality

9.—(1) Nothing in these Regulations shall be taken to authorise or require the disclosure of confidential information.

(2) The public may be excluded from a meeting during an item of business whenever it is likely that, if members of the public were present, confidential information would be disclosed.

(3) In this regulation “confidential information” means—

(a) any information furnished to the conference or the council (or to any committee, sub-committee or representative group referred to in paragraphs (a) to (c) of section 258(3) of the Education Act 1993(1)) by a government department or public authority or body upon terms (however expressed) which forbid the disclosure of the information to the public;

(b) information the disclosure of which to the public is prohibited by or under any enactment or by the order of a court;

(c) information relating to any person which it appears to the conference or the council ought not to be disclosed to the public;

(d) information relating to any legal advice sought or received by the conference or the council,

and in this paragraph “information” includes any expression of opinion, any recommendation and any decision taken.

(1)

1993 c. 35.