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Regulation 15 Publication etc of reports, recommendations and responses: confidential and exempt information

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

(1)

This regulation applies to—

(a)

the publication under regulation 13 of any document comprising—

(i)

a report or recommendations of a joint overview and scrutiny committee; or

(ii)

a response of any of the appointing authorities or their executives to any such report or recommendations;

(b)

the provision of a copy of a report or recommendations to a designated person under regulation 14.

(2)

The joint overview and scrutiny committee, the appointing authority or authorities, or the executive or executives, in publishing the document or providing a copy of the document to a designated person—

(a)

must exclude any confidential information; and

(b)

may exclude any relevant exempt information.

(3)

If information is excluded under paragraph (2), in publishing the document or providing a copy of the document, the joint overview and scrutiny committee or the appointing authority or authorities or the executive or executives—

(a)

may replace so much of the document as discloses the information with a summary which does not disclose that information, and

(b)

must do so if, in consequence of excluding the information, the document would be misleading or not reasonably comprehensible.

(4)

In this regulation—

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

  • “exempt information” (“gwybodaeth esempt”) has the meaning given by section 100I of the Local Government Act 1972, and, in relation to any report or recommendations of a committee or joint committee which has functions under section 21(2)(f) of the 2000 Act, also includes information which is exempt information under section 186 of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006f1;

  • “relevant exempt information” (“gwybodaeth esempt berthnasol”) means in relation to a—

    1. (a)

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

    2. (b)

      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;

    3. (c)

      response of the executive, exempt information of a description specified in such a resolution of the joint overview and scrutiny committee or sub-committee 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.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1

2006 c. 42.