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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-fire-reform-scotland-act-2012/schedule-1/paragraph-11",
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  "legislation": "asp/2012/8",
  "legislation_title": "Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012",
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  "number": "11",
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  "text": "(1) The Authority must ensure that its proceedings and those of its committees and sub-committees are held in public.\n(2) Despite sub-paragraph (1), the Authority or, as the case may be, any of its committees or sub-committees may decide to hold all or part of any proceedings in private.\n(3) The Authority must publish—\n(a) agendas for its proceedings and those of its committees and sub-committees,\n(b) the papers relating to those proceedings,\n(c) such reports of those proceedings as it thinks fit.\n(4) Despite sub-paragraph (3), the Authority may decide that all or part of any agenda, paper or report need not be published.\n(5) The Authority must publish a statement setting out—\n(a) the circumstances in which its proceedings and those of its committees and sub-committees may be held in private, and\n(b) the circumstances in which agendas, papers and reports need not be published.",
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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."
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