# The Local Authorities (Executive Arrangements) (Access to Information) (England) Regulations 2000, Regulation 12: Publicity in connection with key decisions


(1) The executive leader or, as the case may be, the section 11(2) mayor or the council manager shall instruct the proper officer to publish, in accordance with paragraph (2), a document which states—
(a) that key decisions are to be made on behalf of the local authority;
(b) that a plan (to be known as the “forward plan”) containing particulars of the matters in respect of which those decisions are to be made, will be prepared on a monthly basis by the local authority;
(c) that a forward plan will contain details of the key decisions likely to be made by the local authority for the four month period following the publication of the forward plan;
(d) that each current forward plan may be inspected at all reasonable hours and free of charge at the local authority’s offices;
(e) that each forward plan contains a list of the documents submitted to the decision makers for consideration in relation to the matters in respect of which decisions are to be made;
(f) the address from which, subject to any prohibition or restriction on their disclosure, copies of, or extracts from, any document listed in the forward plan is available;
(g) that other documents relevant to those matters may be submitted to the decision makers;
(h) the procedure for requesting details of those documents (if any) as they become available; and
(i) the dates in each month in the following twelve months on which each forward plan will be published and available to the public at the local authority’s offices.
(2) The document referred to in paragraph (1) shall be published—
(a) in at least one newspaper circulating in the area of the local authority; and
(b) annually, on a date at least 14 days, but not more than 21 days before the first forward plan of that year comes into effect.

---
Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/3272/regulation/12 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-executive-arrangements-access-to-information-england-regulations-2000/regulation-12
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.