{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-boards-scotland-regulations-1989/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-boards-scotland-regulations-1989/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/273",
  "legislation_title": "The School Boards (Scotland) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-boards-scotland-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Availability of documents",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, a School Board shall, as soon as possible, make available at the school for inspection by any person who wishes to see it a copy of each of the following documents:—\n(a) the agenda for every meeting of the Board;\n(b) the draft minutes of every such meeting if they have been approved by the chairman of the meeting;\n(c) the minutes of every such meeting as approved by the Board; and\n(d) any report or other document considered at such a meeting.\n(2) There may be excluded from any document required to be made available under paragraph (1) above anything relating to the following subjects:—\n(a) a particular person employed at, formerly employed at, or who has applied to be employed at, the school;\n(b) a particular person who is, has been, or is likely to be, a pupil at the school;\n(c) any information which the Board are legally obliged not to disclose; and\n(d) any matter which the Board are satisfied should be dealt with on a confidential basis because of its nature.\n(3) This regulation shall apply to an Interim School Board and to a committee of a School Board or Interim School Board as it applies to a School Board.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/273/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:49:26.625285+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}