# Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012, Paragraph 11


(1) The Authority must ensure that its proceedings and those of its committees and sub-committees are held in public.
(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.
(3) The Authority must publish—
(a) agendas for its proceedings and those of its committees and sub-committees,
(b) the papers relating to those proceedings,
(c) such reports of those proceedings as it thinks fit.
(4) Despite sub-paragraph (3), the Authority may decide that all or part of any agenda, paper or report need not be published.
(5) The Authority must publish a statement setting out—
(a) the circumstances in which its proceedings and those of its committees and sub-committees may be held in private, and
(b) the circumstances in which agendas, papers and reports need not be published.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2012/8/schedule/1/paragraph/11 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-fire-reform-scotland-act-2012/schedule-1/paragraph-11
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