Education Reform Act 1988

193 Information and access to documents

(1) For the purpose of facilitating the implementation of any provision made by or under this Part, ILEA and its officers shall furnish any body mentioned in subsection (2) below or, as the case may be, the Secretary of State with all such information relating to ILEA or its functions as that body or the Secretary of State may request.

(2) The bodies referred to in subsection (1) above are—

(a) an inner London council;

(b) the London Residuary Body;

(c) any local authority other than an inner London council to which functions, property, rights or liabilities of ILEA will be transferred by order under section 168 of this Act; and

(d) the staff commission established by section 170 of this Act.

(3) Any information required to be furnished under subsection (1) above shall be furnished within one month of the making of the request or, if that is not reasonably practicable, as soon as reasonably practicable after the expiry of that month.

(4) Any person authorised in that behalf by the London Residuary Body shall be entitled on producing, if so required, evidence of his authority—

(a) at all reasonable times to inspect and make copies of any document belonging to or under the control of ILEA; and

(b) to require copies of any such document to be delivered to him.

(5) References in subsection (4) above to copies of a document include references to copies of part of it.

(6) In subsections (4) and (5) above “document” includes any record of information and, where the record is not in legible form, the rights conferred by subsection (4) above include the right to require the information to be made available in legible form for inspection or copying and to require copies of it in that form to be delivered.