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Paragraph 7 Admission to meetings

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(1)

The following provisions of the 1972 Act shall apply with respect to meetings of the joint committee as though references to a principal council were references to the joint committee:

(a)

section 100A (admission to meetings of principal councils), with the exception of subsections (6), (7) and (8);

(b)

section 100I(1) (exempt information); and

(c)

paragraphs 1 to 11 of Schedule 12A (access to information: exempt information).

(2)

Where the public have been excluded from the whole or part of a meeting of the joint committee in accordance with the provisions referred to in sub-paragraph (1), the joint committee may exclude co-opted members from that meeting or (as the case may be) the relevant part of that meeting.