Part XI General Provisions as to Local Authorities
Documents and notices, etc.
C1C5C8C7C9228 Inspection of documents.
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A copy of the minutes of proceedings of a community council must, so far as reasonably practicable, be supplied on request to a local government elector for the area of the council; and a reasonable fee may be charged for providing a copy of the minutes.
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C22
A local government elector for the area of a local authority may inspect and make a copy of or extract from an order for the payment of money made by the local authority.
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The accounts of a local authority and of any proper officer of a local authority shall be open to the inspection of any member of the authority, and any such member may make a copy of or extract from the accounts.
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Subject to any provisions to the contrary in any other enactment or instrument, a person interested in any document deposited as mentioned in section 225 above may, at all reasonable hours, inspect and make copies thereof or extracts therefrom on payment to the person having custody thereof of the sum of 10p for every such inspection, and of the further sum of 10p for every hour during which such inspection continues after the first hour.
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A document directed by F11any of subsections (1) to (5) of this section to be open to inspection shall be so open at all reasonable hours and, except where otherwise expressly provided, without payment.
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If a person having the custody of any such document—
a
obstructs any person entitled to inspect the document or to make a copy thereof or extract therefrom in inspecting the document or making a copy or extract,
b
refuses to give copies or extracts to any person entitled to obtain copies or extracts,
he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding F3level 1 on the standard scale.
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This section shall apply to the minutes of proceedings and the accounts of a joint authority F8, an economic prosperity board, F9, a combined authority or a combined county authorityF14... F17... F16... as if that authority were a local authority and as if, F5..., references to a local government elector for the area of the authority were a reference to a local government elector for any local government area in the area for which the authority is established.
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This section shall apply to the minutes of proceedings and to the accounts of a parish meeting as if that meeting were a F6parish council.
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In relation to the Broads Authority, the references in this section to a local government elector for the area of the authority shall be construed as references to a local government elector for the area of any of the local authorities mentioned in section 1(3)(a) of the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Act 1988.
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Subsections (2) to (7) apply to a corporate joint committee as they apply to a local authority and, in that application, references to a local government elector for the area of the authority are to be read as references to a local government elector for any local government area in the area specified as the corporate joint committee’s area in regulations under Part 5 of the Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 establishing the corporate joint committee.