# The Local Authorities (Overview and Scrutiny Committees) (England) Regulations 2012, Regulation 9: Exemptions from publication requirements, etc


(1) In publishing the document the executive—
(a) must exclude any confidential information; and
(b) may exclude any relevant exempt information.
(2) In providing a copy of the document to a member of the local authority the executive may exclude any confidential information or relevant exempt information.
(3) Where information is excluded under paragraph (1) or (2), the executive, in publishing, or providing a copy of, the document—
(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 published, or copy provided, would be misleading or not reasonably comprehensible.
(4) If by virtue of any of paragraphs (1) to (3) an executive, in publishing or providing a copy of the document—
(a) excludes information; or
(b) replaces part of the document with a summary,
it is nevertheless to be taken for the purposes of section 9FE of the 2000 Act to have published or provided a copy of the response.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1021/regulation/9 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-overview-and-scrutiny-committees-england-regulations-2012/regulation-9
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