{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-access-to-information-variation-order-1992/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-access-to-information-variation-order-1992/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/1497",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Access to Information) (Variation) Order 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-access-to-information-variation-order-1992",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThe Local Government (Access to Information) Act 1985 (1985 c. 43) amended the Local Government Act 1972 (1972 c. 70) so as to provide for greater public access to the meetings and information held by principal councils. Certain categories of information are, however, generally exempt in law from those provisions. These categories are specified in Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the 1972 Act, but they are subject to qualifications set out in Part II of the Schedule. In order, therefore, for information to be exempt from the public access requirements, it must fall both within a category described in Part 1 of the Schedule, and outside any relevant qualification in Part II.\nThis Order adds an additional qualification to Part II, so that the public access provisions of the Act will apply to information which is otherwise exempt (because it falls within a Part I category) if that information relates to proposed development for which the relevant local planning authority is empowered to grant itself planning permission.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1497/note",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}