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<Text>A relevant authority other than a health service body must ensure that a local government elector for its area may inspect and make copies of—</Text>
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<Text>the statement of accounts prepared by the authority,</Text>
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<Text>the local auditor’s certificate that the audit of the authority’s accounts including that statement has been completed,</Text>
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<Text>the local auditor’s opinion on the statement of accounts,</Text>
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<Text>A relevant authority other than a health service body must ensure that a local government elector for its area may have copies of any document within subsection <InternalLink id="i00070" Ref="section-25-1" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2014/2/section/25/1" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/2/section/25/1/enacted">(1)</InternalLink> supplied to the elector at the elector’s request on payment of a reasonable sum for each copy.</Text>
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<Text>The relevant authority must ensure that a local government elector may inspect a document within subsection <InternalLink id="i00071" Ref="section-25-1" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2014/2/section/25/1" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/2/section/25/1/enacted">(1)</InternalLink> at all reasonable times and without payment.</Text>
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<Text>This section applies in relation to a document only if the relevant authority has prepared the document or it has been made available to the authority.</Text>
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<Text>References in this section to copies of a document include a reference to copies of any part of it.</Text>
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