Paragraph 7 Admission to meetingsI1

England and Wales

(1)

The following provisions of the 1972 Act shall apply with respect to meetings of the joint committee as if references to a principal council were references to the joint committee—

(a)

section 100A (admission to meetings of principal councils)^f1, with the exception of subsections (6), (7) and (8);

(b)

section 100I(1) (exempt information); and

(c)

paragraphs 1 to 11 of Schedule 12A (access to information: exempt information).

(2)

Where the public have been excluded from the whole or part of a meeting of the joint committee in accordance with any provision referred to in sub-paragraph (1), the joint committee may exclude co-opted members and observers from that meeting or (as the case may be) the relevant part of that meeting.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Sch. para. 7 in force at 12.10.2009, see art. 1

Footnotes

f1: Relevant amendments were made by section 46 of the Local Government Act 2000 (c.22), sections 1 and 94 of, and Schedule 12 to, the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c.42), section 84 of, and Schedule 14 to, the Local Government Act 1985 (c.51), section 1(1) of the Local Government (Access to Information) Act 1985, section 267 of the Enterprise Act 2002 (c.40), section 206 of, and Schedule 8 to, the Representation of the People Act 1983 (c.2), section 54 of, and Schedule 3 to, the Audit Commission Act 1998 (c.18), section 69 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999 (c.29), section 78 of, and Schedule 10 to, the Environment Act 1995 (c.25), section 139(3) of the Transport Act 1985 (c.67), section 38 of the Local Government Finance Act 1982 (c.32), section 237 of, and Schedule 13 to, the Education Reform Act 1988 (c.40), sections 17(4) and 18(6) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Electoral Administration Act 2006 (c. 22) and sections 74(1), 209(2), 216(2) and 241 of, and Schedules 3, 13, 14 and 18 to, the Local Government and Public Improvement in Health Act 2007 (c.28). Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1995/1948, 2001/2237, 2002/715 and 2006/88.

Notes on the whole SI

Textual amendments

F1: Regulations continued despite the substitution of enabling power 2004 c. 5, s. 29 by 2023 c.55, s.255(3)(b), Sch. 7 (25.3.2026) by The Levelling Up and Regeneration Act 2023 (Commencement No. 11 and Saving and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/169), Sch. 2 para. 1 (with Sch. 2 para. 2)