Regulation 8 Confidential and exempt informationI1

This regulation applies to—

The overview and scrutiny committee or the local authority, in publishing the document or providing a copy of the document to a relevant partner authority—

The overview and scrutiny committee, or the local authority, in providing a copy of a document to a member of the local authority, may exclude any confidential information or relevant exempt information.

Where information is excluded under paragraphs (2) or (3), the overview and scrutiny committee or the local authority, in publishing, or providing a copy of, the document—

If by virtue of paragraphs (2), (3) or (4) an overview and scrutiny committee, in publishing or providing a copy of a report or recommendations—

it is nevertheless to be taken for the purposes of regulation 7(2) to have published the report or recommendations.

In this regulation—

• “confidential information” has the meaning given by section 100A(3) of the 1972 Act ^f1(admission to meetings of principal councils);

• “exempt information” has the meaning given by section 100I of that Act^f2; and

• “relevant exempt information” means—

  1. (a)

     in relation to a report or recommendations of an overview and scrutiny committee, exempt information of a description specified in a resolution of the overview and scrutiny committee under section 100A(4) of the 1972 Act which applied to the proceedings, or part of the proceedings, at any meeting of the overview and scrutiny committee at which the report was, or recommendations were, considered; and

  2. (b)

     in relation to a response of the authority, exempt information of a description specified in such a resolution of the authority which applied to the proceedings, or part of the proceedings, at any meeting of the authority at which the report or response was, or recommendations were, considered.

In this regulation, references to an overview and scrutiny committee include references to a sub-committee of such a committee.