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England, Wales and Scotland

An Act to provide for the admission of representatives of the press and other members of the public to the meetings of certain bodies exercising public functions.

[27th October 1960]C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 I1 C8 C9 C10 C11[27th October 1960]C12 C13[27th October 1960][27th October 1960]C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22 C23

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C1

Councils of administrative counties, boroughs (except those in rural districts), urban districts, rural districts and urban parishes outside Greater London and Isles of Scilly together with municipal corporations of boroughs outside Greater London now abolished and councils of metropolitan counties, non-metropolitan counties and districts constituted by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), ss. 1, 2, Sch. 1

C2

Act amended with the substitution for any reference to a rural parish or its council or meeting of a reference to (E.) a parish or its council or meeting and (W.) a community or its council by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), s. 179 subject as in that section mentioned

C3

Councils of counties, counties of cities, large burghs, small burghs and districts in Scotland now abolished and regional, islands and district councils constituted by Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 65), ss. 1, 2, Sch. 1

C4

Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3

C5

Act amended (E.W.) by Water Act 1989 (c. 15, SIF 130), ss. 58(7), 101(1), 141(6), 160(1)(2)(4), 163, 189(4)–10), 190, 193(1), Sch. 25 para. 28, Sch. 26 paras. 3(1)(2), 17, 40(4), 57(6), 58

C6

Act excluded by S.I. 1989/1815, art. 2, Sch. 1 para. 8

C7

Act applied by S.I. 1990/2639, art. 5(1), Sch. Pt. II

Act applied (with modifications) (S.) (1.4.1993) by S.I. 1993/577, art. 5, Sch. Pt.II (with art. 6)

C8

Act applied (S.) (1.4.1999) by S.I. 1999/686, art. 5(1), Sch. 1 Pt. II

Act applied (E.W.) (1.4.1999) by S.I. 1999/695, art. 6

Act applied (S.) (1.4.1999) by S.I. 1999/726, art. 5(1)(2), Sch. Pt. II

Act: transfer of functions (W.) (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/672, arts. 1(2), 2, Sch. 1; S.I. 1998/3178, art. 3

Act applied (E.W.) (27.8.1999) by S.I. 1999/220, art. 6 (as added (27.8.1999) by S.I. 1999/2219, art. 2(3))

Act applied (E.W.) (14.1.2000) by S.I. 1999/3431, art. 6

Act applied (S.) (1.4.2000) by S.S.I. 2000/47, art. 5, Sch. Pt. II

Act applied (S.) (6.4.2001) by S.S.I. 2001/137, art. 5(1), Sch. Pt. II

Act applied (E.) (2.7.2001) by S.I. 2001/1743, art. 6

Act applied (S.) (27.6.2002) by S.S.I. 2002/305, art. 5(1), Sch. Pt. II

Act applied (S.) (31.3.2002) by S.S.I. 2002/103, art. 6, Sch. Pt. II, (with art. 4(4))

C9

Act applied (1.4.2003) by Health Protection Agency (Yr Asiantaeth Diogel Iechyd) (Establishment) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/505), arts. 1(1), 6

C10

Act applied (E.) (1.12.2003) by NHSU (Establishment and Constitution) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/2772), arts. 1(1), 6

C11

Act applied (E.) (1.4.2004) by NHS Direct (Establishment and Constitution) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/569), arts. 1(1), 6

C12

Act applied (E.W.) (1.4.2004) by The NHS Pensions Agency (Asiantaeth Pensiynau'r GIG) (Establishment and Constitution) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/667), arts. 1(1), 6

C13

Act applied (1.4.2005) by Health and Social Care Information Centre (Establishment and Constitution) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/499), arts. 1(1), 6

C14

Act applied (1.4.2005) by Health Protection Agency Act 2004 (c. 17), s. 12(1), Sch. 1 para. 15; S.I. 2005/121, art. 2(2)

C15

Act applied (E.) (1.7.2005) by NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement (Establishment and Constitution) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/1446), arts. 1(1), 7

C16

Act applied (1.10.2005) by NHS Blood and Transplant (Gwaed a Thrawsblaniadau’r GIG) (Establishment and Constitution) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2529), arts. 1(1), 6

C17

Act applied (1.10.2006) by Health Act 2006 (c. 28), s. 83(7), Sch. 4 para. 14; S.I. 2006/2603, art. 4(4)(b)

C18

Act applied (E.W.) (1.6.2012) by The National Health Service Trust Development Authority (Establishment and Constitution) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/901), arts. 1(1), 7

C19

Act applied (E.) (28.6.2012) by The Health Education England (Establishment and Constitution) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/1273), regs. 1(1), 6

C20

Act excluded (31.5.2018) by The Silvertown Tunnel Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/574), arts. 1(2), 66(9)

C21

Act applied (S.) (7.12.2019) by The Public Health Scotland Order 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/336), art. 1(2), sch. 1 Pt. 2 (with art. 4(4)(5))

C22

Act applied (E.W.) (30.12.2020) by The Digital Health and Care Wales (Establishment and Membership) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/1451), arts. 1(2), 5

C23

Act excluded (E.W.) (24.4.2025) by The London Luton Airport Expansion Development Consent Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/463), art. 1, Sch. 2 para. 21(13) (with Sch. 8 paras. 36(3), 87)

Commencement

I1: Act wholly in force at 1.6.1961 see s. 3(4)