Regulation 3 Minutes of community council meetings

In the April 2020 Regulations, after regulation 23 insert—

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Section 228 of the 1972 Act M1 (inspection of documents) is to be read in relation to a meeting of a local authority to which that section applies (by virtue of any enactment), held before the end of 30 April 2021, as if—

(a)

before subsection (1) there were inserted—

“(A1)

A copy of the minutes of proceedings of a community council must, so far as reasonably practicable, be supplied on request to a local government elector for the area of the council; and a reasonable fee may be charged for providing a copy of the minutes.”;

(b)

in subsection (1), “or community” were omitted;

(c)

in subsection (6), before “this section” there were inserted “any of subsections (1) to (5) of”.”