{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-scotland-act-2005/schedule-1A/paragraph-11",
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  "legislation": "asp/2005/5",
  "legislation_title": "Fire (Scotland) Act 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-scotland-act-2005",
  "path": "schedule/1A/paragraph/11",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) SFRS must ensure that its proceedings and those of its committees and sub-committees are held in public.\n(2) Despite sub-paragraph (1), SFRS or, as the case may be, any of its committees or sub-committees may decide to hold all or part of any proceedings in private.\n(3) SFRS must publish—\n(a) agendas for its proceedings and those of its committees and sub-committees,\n(b) the papers relating to those proceedings,\n(c) such reports of those proceedings as it thinks fit.\n(4) Despite sub-paragraph (3), SFRS may decide that all or part of any agenda, paper or report need not be published.\n(5) SFRS must publish a statement setting out—\n(a) the circumstances in which its proceedings and those of its committees and sub-committees may be held in private, and\n(b) the circumstances in which agendas, papers and reports need not be published.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1A inserted (8.8.2012) by Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 8), ss. 101(2), 129(1)(b) (with s. 122(4))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2005/5/schedule/1A/paragraph/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:28.643565+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}