Regulation 26 Exempt informationI1

The descriptions of information which are, for the purposes of this Part, exempt information are those for the time being specified in Part 4 of Schedule 12A to the 1972 Act as modified in its application to this Part by paragraph (2) subject to any qualifications contained in Part 5 of that Schedule as so modified.

For the purposes of paragraph (1), Parts 4 to 6 of Schedule 12A to the 1972 Act apply as if, for paragraph 22(2) of that Schedule, there were substituted—

“(2)

Any reference in Parts 4 and 5 and this Part of this Schedule to “the authority” is a reference to the corporate joint committee or, as the case may be, the sub-committee of the corporate joint committee in relation to whose proceedings or documents the question whether information is exempt or not falls to be determined and includes a reference—

(a)

in the case of a corporate joint committee, to any sub-committee of the corporate joint committee, and

(b)

in the case of a sub-committee, to the corporate joint committee of which it is a sub-committee.”