Regulation 11 Rights of access to records

(1)

Where—

(a)

any records of a relevant authority are vested by virtue of these Regulations or any other relevant instrument in any body; and

(b)

the records relate to—

(i)

any property, rights or liabilities which are so vested in another body; or

(ii)

any function which is exercisable, on and after the reorganisation date, by such other body,

that other body shall be entitled during ordinary office hours, through any person authorised in that behalf, to inspect those records and to take, or be supplied with, copies of those records or of any part of them.

(2)

The rights conferred by paragraph (1) above include the right to require any record which is not in legible form to be made available in legible form for the purposes of inspection or copying or being supplied with copies.

(3)

In this regulation and regulation 12, “relevant authority” means—

(i)

an abolished authority; or

(ii)

the relinquishing authority in relation to a transferred area.