Regulation 2 Additional rights of access to documents for members of local authorities

in paragraphs (1) and (2), for “(3) and (4)”, substitute “(3) to (4)”; and

for paragraph (3), substitute—

“(3)

Paragraphs (1) and (2) do not require a document to be available for inspection if it appears to the proper officer that it discloses exempt information of a description falling within Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the 1972 Act (descriptions of exempt information: England)^f2.

(3A)

But paragraphs (1) and (2) do require (despite paragraph (3)) the document to be available for inspection if the information is information of a description for the time being falling within—

(a)

paragraph 3 of Schedule 12A to the 1972 Act (except to the extent that the information relates to any terms proposed or to be proposed by or to the authority in the course of negotiations for a contract); or

(b)

paragraph 6 of Schedule 12A to the 1972 Act.”.